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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Product Discovery Experiment 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. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. | 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. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1-2 h | 1-2 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |