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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |  Product Discovery Experiment 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 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-3 h | 1-3 Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 5-12 Interviews | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |