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Criterion
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy 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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-3 h30–60 min per interview30–60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-81 participant per interview4-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps
Tagsno overlap
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming