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| Criterion |  Innovation Starbursting |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  UX Research Empathy Mapping |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-60 min je Interview | 30–60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 5-12 Interviews | 4-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |