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Criterion
Paper illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
Paper illustration of shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Purposedifferent
When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min5-15 min20-35 min
Participantsdifferent
12-100+3-201-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsRanked list, Consensus signal, ShortlistTest Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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Fake Door Test
Paper illustration for Fishbowl Discussion.
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