Lean Ux Canvas

Gothelf's Lean UX Canvas is a structured workshop format that forces teams to frame work around business problems instead of jumping to solutions. It walks you through 8 boxes: business problem, measurable outcomes, target users, user benefits, solution ideas, testable hypotheses, riskiest assumption, and smallest experiment to validate it. The format is opinionated about separating business metrics from user goals, and it treats features as hypotheses to test rather than commitments to build. Use this when stakeholders are solution-driven and you need to surface assumptions before committing sprints, or when an initiative feels vague and you need to turn it into concrete learning goals. The skill runs it as an interactive session with guided prompts for each box.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill lean-ux-canvas --agent claude-code

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Purpose

Guide product managers through creating Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX Canvas (v2)—a one-page facilitation tool that frames work around a business problem to solve, not a solution to implement. Use this to align cross-functional teams around core assumptions, craft testable hypotheses, and ensure learning happens every sprint by exposing gaps in understanding (problem, users, value, and why the solution should work).

This is not a roadmap or feature list—it's an "insurance policy" that turns assumptions into experiments before committing to full development. The canvas shifts conversations from outputs to outcomes and ensures teams build the right thing, not just build things right.

Input

Works best with: The business problem you're framing — or the solution idea you're being handed, which the canvas will reframe as a problem. Also useful: Known users, evidence so far, and what the team already believes (assumptions to surface).

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Details

Repository: github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills
Categories: Documentation, Design & UI/UX
First seen: Apr 16, 2026