lean-ux-canvas

lean-ux-canvas is an interactive facilitation skill that guides product teams through Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX Canvas (v2), a one-page tool for framing work around a business problem to solve rather than a solution to implement. It solves the common failure mode of teams jumping straight to features by helping them align on the problem, surface hidden assumptions, craft testable hypotheses, and decide what to learn next, acting as an insurance policy that turns assumptions into experiments before committing to full development.

The skill structures a session around the canvas's eight boxes, filled in order: business problem, business outcomes, users, user outcomes and benefits, solutions, hypotheses, riskiest assumption to learn first, and the least work or experiment needed to test it. It accepts a business problem or even a handed-down solution idea (which it reframes as a problem), uses any context supplied at invocation as already-given answers, and can start from scratch with Box 1 when nothing is provided. It ships with a fill-in template and worked examples contrasting a strong, outcome-driven canvas (mobile checkout optimization, enterprise onboarding friction) against a weak, solution-first one, including hypothesis and experiment patterns like Wizard-of-Oz and concierge tests.

It targets product managers, UX practitioners, and cross-functional teams running discovery or workshop sessions. Typical use cases include framing a vague initiative, running an assumptions workshop for a problem like onboarding drop-off, or reframing a leadership-mandated feature into a problem worth validating. It is a pure guidance and planning helper with no code execution or external access.