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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Working Backwards |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the target state and benefit need to be clear first, it thinks backward from the desired outcome into the product logic. It sharpens vision, objections, and value proposition before elaboration. | 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. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 4-8 h, mehrere Iterationen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 2-3 h | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-6 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Future Press Release, FAQ, Vision Statement | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | VisionNarrativeAlignment | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |