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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping | ![]() Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1-2 h | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas |
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