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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min2-3 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-86-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
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ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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