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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tags2 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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