The Minicanvas What is the Minicanvas? In my Design Thinking, Product Innovation/Strategy and User Centered Product Design workshops, the first activity of the day is to fill out the canvas in order to lay out the key product hypothesis. These hypothesis are the starting point for the problem/solution and product/market fit validation stages. In other ...
The minicanvas is an adaptation from Ash Maurya's Lean Canvas. I made 2 key changes to the original: I only kept the key product areas: problem, segments, solution, unique value proposition I rearranged and renamed some of the areas to better help users of the canvas enter the information they need to validate their product. Why I made this version? Because while working with product managers, business stakeholders and entrepreneurs I found that they had difficulty entering the information they needed in order to validate product hypothesis. You can see here the rationale for the changes I made. Also, this is the version of the Minicanvas that I mention in the article "Tool Disease".
