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A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.
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LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min10-20 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-84-100+
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, ConstraintsIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes
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ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
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