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A Lean UX Canvas is a one-page framework to frame business problems, surface assumptions, and plan measurable learnings. Teams use it during product discovery to align cross-functional stakeholders and define experiments before committing to development.

Facilitate a Lean UX Canvas workshop by guiding cross-functional teams through eight adaptive questions in sequence. This structured workflow helps stakeholders collaboratively define business problems, outcomes, users, solutions, hypotheses, and experiments.

Yes, you can use the Lean UX Canvas for problem framing to achieve cross-functional alignment. It shifts focus to outcomes rather than feature lists, ensuring shared understanding across stakeholders during discovery sprints.

The best way to derive hypotheses is using a Lean UX Canvas to explicitly map business problems and user outcomes to solutions. This process surfaces your riskiest assumption, allowing you to plan the least work needed for measurable learnings.

No specific prior documentation is required to start the Lean UX Canvas. You can optionally provide references or assets to inform the adaptive prompts, but the framework primarily relies on answering eight questions to produce a complete plan.