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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Facilitation Barcamp | ![]() Innovation Brainwriting | ![]() Facilitation Mind Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 15-30 min | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 15-200 | 3-12 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation |



