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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done | ![]() UX Design Customer Journey Canvas | ![]() 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 switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-3 Wochen | 1-3 h | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 5-12 Interviews | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |



