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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery User Story Mapping | ![]() UX Design Customer Journey Canvas | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |
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