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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1-5 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |