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Criterion
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Purposedifferent
When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates.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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-3 h15-30 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-83-123-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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