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| Criterion |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1-2 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |
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