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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 30-60 min | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 4-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |