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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Innovation Design Thinking |  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. | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 1-3 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 1-5 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |