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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Innovation Starbursting |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Innovation Design Charrette |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 1-2 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 3-10 | 10-50 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation |