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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-3 h | 60-120 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 5-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds |