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| Criterion |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise. | 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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen | 2-3 h | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchObservationContext | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas |