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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Purposedifferent
When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.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
LowHighHigh
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview4-5 TageMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview5-82-6 researchers plus sample
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPrototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
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Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas