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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 a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min20-35 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-101-52-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesTest Card with a pre-set thresholdCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas