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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  UX Research User Interviews |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  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. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30–60 min per interview | 5-15 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1 participant per interview | 3-20 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |