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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationDemandMVP |
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