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Criterion
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
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 a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
2-3 h2-6 h20-35 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-101-52-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentFMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation ActionsTest Card with a pre-set thresholdFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
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CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
Root causeQualityOperations
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