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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization 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. | 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 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. | 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 | 30-90 min | 2-3 h | 1-3 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |