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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Facilitation Alignment 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 goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |