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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-3 h | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |