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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture arc42 |  Architecture C4 Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h | 1-2 Tage | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 1-4 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization |