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| Criterion |  UX Research Usability Testing |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation TRIZ |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product is built but people get stuck on tasks, usability testing shows the friction at concrete points. Observed use instead of self-report makes visible where orientation, understanding, or interaction breaks down. | 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. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h je Session | Mehrere Wochen | 1-4 h | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Based on research question | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Usability Issues, Severity List, Recommendations | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationUXPrototype | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | QuantitativeResearchValidation |