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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of many question cards around one challenge
Facilitation
Question Burst
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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.When a problem gets covered up too quickly with answers, Question Burst puts the better question at the center. The format opens the thinking space before the group commits to an interpretation.When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min15-30 min45-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-102-81-64-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesQuestion List, Reframed Challenge, Learning PromptsNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
QuestionsReframingFacilitationSensemaking
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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