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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Purposedifferent
When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage4-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-6Nutzertraffic5-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionPrototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test