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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-10 Interviews | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | QuantitativeResearchValidation |