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| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 2-3 h | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |