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| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |