The Canvas Directory
Every canvas worth knowing.
Credited properly.
Somebody made each of these. Osterwalder and Pigneur spent years on the nine boxes everyone now sketches from memory; Ivanov and Voloshchuk gave away the Team Canvas with a license that says share it onward. This page is the map and the credits: 75 canvases, who made them, when, under what terms, with a page on each and a link to the original.
Where a creator's license lets us show the canvas, we do, with their credit line. Where it doesn't, we don't. That's the whole editorial policy.
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Not sure where to start? Say what you're walking into and we'll point you at the right one.
Describe what you're walking into. A team that's never worked together, a strategy day, a product that won't move. A sentence is plenty.
One-Page Change Plan
A change initiative on one A3-inspired page: why, who's affected, what we'll try, and how we'll know.
by Jason Little (Lean Change Management), 2012
Celebration Grid
A retrospective grid that celebrates the right things: learning, whether it came from mistakes, experiments, or good practice.
by Jurgen Appelo (Management 3.0), 2013
Customer Forces Canvas
One interview, one page: the push, pull, friction, and inertia behind a customer's switch.
by Ash Maurya (LEANSTACK), 2017
Strategy Blueprint
Six fields that force a strategy to say something: challenges, aspirations, focus areas, guiding principles, activities, outcomes.
by Jim Kalbach, 2015 · experiencinginformation.com
Project Canvas (DTU)
Twelve blocks that give a project team one shared picture: purpose to milestones on a single page.
by Thijs van Tilburg & Thomas Simon Olesen & Simon Stubben & Sune Liengard & Martin Vyrostko & Nina Bonne Breum (Technical University of Denmark), 2014
Project Canvas (Nieto-Rodriguez)
The HBR-era project one-pager: foundation, people, and creation of a project examined before the plan exists.
by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, 2019
Lean UX Canvas
Eight boxes that stop a team designing a solution before it has agreed on the problem.
by Jeff Gothelf, 2019
Example Mapping
Four colours of index card that turn a vague user story into rules, examples, and the questions nobody can answer yet.
by Matt Wynne (Cucumber), 2015
Job Map
The eight universal steps of any job a customer is trying to get done, mapped so you can find where it goes wrong.
by Anthony W. Ulwick & Lance A. Bettencourt (Strategyn), 2008
The Core Model Canvas
Plans a single page around the user task and the business goal that meet on it, then works outward to the paths in and forward.
by Are Halland, 2019
Futures Wheel
A change in the middle, its direct consequences in the first ring, and their consequences in the second, where the surprises live.
by Jerome C. Glenn, 1971
AI in Government Suitability Canvas
Asks whether a public-sector problem should be solved with AI at all, before anyone starts building.
by OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, 2026
Data Collaboratives Canvas
Designs a data-sharing partnership between organisations before anyone signs anything.
by The GovLab (The GovLab, NYU), 2018
Digital Policy Model Canvas
Puts a policy proposal on one page so its assumptions can be argued with before it is drafted.
by The GovLab (The GovLab, NYU), 2017
The Design Thinking Canvas
One sheet that holds a whole design-thinking engagement: people, problem, vision, solution, impact and how it gets managed.
by What Could Be Ltd, 2019
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