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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 two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.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
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30–60 min per interview30-60 min je Interview2-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-101 participant per interview5-12 Interviews3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
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