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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h | 1-2 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 3-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | InnovationPrototypeResearch |



