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| Criterion |  UX Design Design Studio |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Innovation Starbursting |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | SensemakingDecisionRationale | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |