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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture 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 complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | InnovationPrototypeResearch | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |
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