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| Criterion |  Product Discovery User Story Mapping |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Experiment 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. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | 2-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |