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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Innovation How Might We |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 10-20 min | 30–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-10 | 4-100+ | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions |