The Canvas Directory
Miro boards.
The canvases someone has already built as a Miro board, so a remote room can start filling one in instead of drawing it.
Business Model Canvas
Nine boxes that hold a whole business on one page. The canvas the others descend from.
by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (Strategyzer), 2010 · strategyzer.com
Lean Canvas
The Business Model Canvas rebuilt for startups: problems and unfair advantage instead of partners and relationships.
by Ash Maurya (LEANSTACK), 2010 · leanspark.ai
Empathy Map Canvas
One person, one page: what they see, say, do, hear, think, and feel. The fastest route out of your own head.
by Dave Gray (XPLANE), 2010
Team Canvas
A team charter that fits on one page: goals, roles, values, rules, and the personal stakes nobody usually says out loud.
by Alex Ivanov & Mitya Voloshchuk, 2015 · theteamcanvas.com
Opportunity Canvas
One page that makes a product idea defend itself before it becomes a roadmap line.
by Jeff Patton, 2016
Product Vision Board
Vision on top, then target group, needs, product, and business goals. Five boxes between a slogan and a strategy.
by Roman Pichler, 2011 · romanpichler.com
Team Alignment Map
Four columns that stop a project meeting from ending in nods: joint objectives, commitments, resources, risks.
by Stefano Mastrogiacomo, 2020
Platform Design Toolkit
Canvases for businesses that connect people instead of just serving them: ecosystems, not pipelines.
by Simone Cicero (Boundaryless), 2013
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
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
5W2H
Seven questions — What, Why, Who, When, Where, How, How Much — for scoping a plan before it's built.
by Quality-management tradition
Bounded Context Canvas
A Business-Model-Canvas-style one-pager for one software service's purpose, roles, and contracts.
by ddd-crew & Kenny Baas & Kim Lindhard & Michael Plöd & Maxime Sanglan-Charlier, 2019
Category Design Canvas
A six-cell canvas for naming and justifying a market category, not just positioning a product in one.
by Hans-Jörg Roser (H&F Solutions)
Concept Map
A node-and-labeled-link diagram where every connection has to read as a sentence, not just a line.
by Joseph D. Novak & Miro (IHMC), 1972
The Course Design Canvas
A Business-Model-Canvas-style one-pager for a training course's learners and outcomes before any slide gets built.
by Netmind, 2016
Cover Story Vision Canvas
Seven boxes that design the magazine cover story your boldest future would earn.
by David Sibbet & The Grove Consultants International
Creative Matrix
A grid that forces one idea at every category-by-segment intersection instead of free brainstorming.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business), 2012
Customer Transformation Canvas
A before/after canvas — current state, transformation, future state — for a value proposition grounded in real change.
by Ben Crothers (Bright Pilots)
Cynefin Framework
Sorts a situation into Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, or Confused, so the response actually matches the problem.
by Dave Snowden (The Cynefin Company), 1999
Data Landscape Canvas
Four quadrants — owned, earned, paid, public data — rated by availability, to check a data product has data.
by Martin Szugat (Datentreiber GmbH)
Experiment Canvas
Six boxes that turn a risky assumption into a falsifiable test with a recorded verdict.
by Ash Maurya (Design a Better Business), 2016
Force Field Analysis
Weighs the forces driving a change against the forces restraining it, so the plan tips the actual balance.
by Kurt Lewin, 1943
Game Design Canvas
A seven-cell canvas that breaks a game down to player, core loop, mechanics, and the feeling it leaves.
by Edugametion
Heuristic Evaluation Board
Three to five evaluators independently score a product against Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, then merge findings.
by Jakob Nielsen & Nielsen Norman Group, 1994
Iceberg Systems Analysis
Four layers below a visible event — patterns, structures, mental models — for finding what drives a chronic problem.
by Systems-thinking tradition & Erin Ingram
Innovation Matrix
A 2x2 that filters an idea pool toward substantial change, not just easy wins.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business)
The Learning Culture Canvas
A seven-cell audit of whether a team's habits and incentives actually support learning — or just claim to.
by Tini Studio
Personal Maps
Everyone draws a quick mind-map of themselves, then shares it in two minutes flat.
by Jurgen Appelo & Management 3.0
Quality Planning Canvas
Four boxes for defining what quality means for a feature, before any code gets written.
by WE WILL TECH
UX Research Repository
A tagged, searchable board of past research findings, so studies stop getting quietly re-run.
by Shipra Kayan & Miro
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