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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research User Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | Mehrere Wochen | 30–60 min per interview |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1 participant per interview |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery |
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