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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-5 Tage | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tags1 shared | ValidationDemandMVP | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |
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