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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Innovation Brainwriting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 15-45 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-10 | 2-6 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas |