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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 60-180 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 4-20 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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