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Selected:Architecture Inception CanvasSoftware Architecture CanvasOutcome-Driven InnovationLean UX Canvas
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas | ![]() 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. | 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. | 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 | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |



