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Criterion
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
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Timedifferent
1-4 h20-35 min60-120 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-52-81-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsTest Card with a pre-set thresholdContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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