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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  UX Research Surveys |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 3-14 Tage | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 50+ | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | QuantitativeResearchValidation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |