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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Mind MappingRound Robin BrainstormingLotus Blossom
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min | 20-45 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-10 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |