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Business Model Canvas for User Experience by. Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is the tool of choice for a quick, one page dashboard of your business hypotheses. It very much appeals to the business guy in me, but it irks the User Experience (UX) part of my brain. But hey…the canvas is a tool. Use the right tool for the right job.

Don’t have the right tool? I’m not suggesting the canvas is wrong. It is neither right nor wrong. There are many such paradigms available for your to choose. These are all just tools. Tl;dr This is a fairly detailed follow up of why I’ve modified the BMC for UX focus. Form Should Fit Function The first time I saw the canvas I just could not figure out why it was shaped the way it was no matter how hard I looked. Production is on the left, customer is on the right, product meets in the middle. Makes sense, but even after looking at it for years and through it’s evolution I still have questions: Aren’t distribution channels and customer relationships/support COSTS? Customer Comes First Simple fix. or.

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Business Model for Startups.