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Give cards, notes, tokens, or running state a labelled place on the page.

A preset of zones. Attribution: Lean Canvas by Ash Maurya (LeanStack), adapted from the Business Model Canvas. Adapted.. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported (this file is excluded from the repository's Apache 2.0 licence).

Variants

  • default

Data fields

The fields a spec's page can set for this component (see switchback show lean-canvas --json):

  • zones
  • layout

Grounding

Helps: when an early product idea needs its problem, customer, and riskiest assumption on one page; the preset adds no claim beyond the zones

Backfires: when filling every box feels like validation: a complete canvas is a set of guesses, not tested evidence

  • CItems placed inside the same bounded region are perceived as belonging together, even against other grouping cues, so labelled zones make category membership readable at a glance.Wagemans et al. (2012)

What the grades mean