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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-3 h | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-12 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |