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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 20-35 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tags2 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |