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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Operations Causal Factor Analysis |  Operations Barrier Analysis |  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. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. | For a risk that can only be managed through multiple layers of protection, the method examines the effectiveness of each barrier. It shows where safeguards are missing, too weak, or fail under real conditions. | 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 | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 2-6 h | 2-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Barrier Inventory, Failure Analysis per Barrier, Action Backlog | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | Root causeSafetyIncident | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |