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A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
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.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-102-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
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