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Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data.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.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
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Stunden bis wenige Tage1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-4 Wochen
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Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
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Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decisionProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
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Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping