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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)RolestormingMorphological AnalysisLotus Blossom
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Rolestorming |  Innovation Morphological Analysis |  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 search for ideas stalls, switching roles helps people step outside their own perspective and activate new logics of action. The method reduces habit because contributions arise from a different stance. This brings unfamiliar, often fitting solution approaches into play. | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Rollenkarten, Ideenpool pro Rolle, Konsolidierte Shortlist | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationCreativity | IdeationInnovationCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |