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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 20-35 min | 30-60 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |