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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2-3 h | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |
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