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| Criterion |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  UX Research Empathy Mapping |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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 lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing. | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2-3 h | 30–60 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 4-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop | JourneyServiceService design |