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Criterion
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning 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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage30-90 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
Nutzertraffic1-61-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
DecisionTreeOptions
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas