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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() UX Research Surveys | ![]() 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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 3-14 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 50+ | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | QuantitativeResearchValidation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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