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| Criterion |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45–90 min | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |