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Selected:Design ThinkingSoftware Architecture CanvasOutcome-Driven InnovationArchitecture Communication Canvas
| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |