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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() UX Design Customer Journey Canvas | ![]() UX Research Empathy Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1-3 h | 30–60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 4-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop |
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