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Selected:Architecture Inception CanvasLean UX CanvasOutcome-Driven InnovationSoftware Architecture Canvas
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture 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. | 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. | 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 Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |



