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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Facilitation Barcamp |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 2-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 15-200 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |