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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen | 1-2 h | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |
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