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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |