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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
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.A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-90 min10-20 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-104-100+
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesRich Picture, Problem Framing NotesIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
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Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
How Might We
Innovation
How Might We
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique