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Innovation
TRIZ
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Product Discovery
Problem Interview
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Purposedifferent
For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-4 h30-60 min je Interview25-40 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-12 Interviews1-52-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsProblem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer SegmentsLearning Card with evidence and next actionContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
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InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
DiscoveryInterviewsValidation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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