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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 2-3 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | InnovationPrototypeResearch |
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