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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Mind Mapping | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All | ![]() Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 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. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 2-3 h | 10-20 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-8 | 4-100+ | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |



