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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | Mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-10 Interviews | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |