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Criterion
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.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.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-12Designers, developers as users, and facilitation10-504-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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