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| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |