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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 30-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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