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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization 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. | 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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 2-3 h | 60-120 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-8 | 5-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |