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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  UX Research Usability Testing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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 product is built but people get stuck on tasks, usability testing shows the friction at concrete points. Observed use instead of self-report makes visible where orientation, understanding, or interaction breaks down. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h je Session | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | Based on research question | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Usability Issues, Severity List, Recommendations | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationUXPrototype | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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