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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations Ivy Lee Method |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |  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. | With a restless workday full of too many open items, the method creates radical simplicity. It directs attention to a short sequence instead of a broad, still-open field. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 5-10 min daily | 60-90 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Daily Priority List, Completion Notes | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | PrioritizationProductivityExecution | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |