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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking Rich Picture | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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