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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage30 min Setup, dann laufend1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
50+1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneNutzertraffic
Formatsame
AsyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsRAID Log, Status Report SourceInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)