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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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 research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 2-3 h | 45–90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 3-8 | 3-10 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |