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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Product Vision Board | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team. | 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 Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-3 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions |
Tags1 shared | VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas |
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