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Criterion
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowHigh
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 minMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
50+4-102-82-6 researchers plus sample
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
InnovationPrototypeResearch
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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