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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Innovation Brainstorming |  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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | 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 | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-8 | 4-12 | 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 pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |