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| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Innovation Design Sprint |  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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | 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 | Low | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 2-3 h | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 3-8 | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |