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| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Test Card |  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. | 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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | 20-35 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |