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Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
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Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration of an eight-panel idea sheet with varied sketches beside a timer set to eight minutes.
Innovation
Crazy 8s
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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h2-6 h8-15 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-81-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasSketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint
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Paper illustration of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
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Rapid Ideation
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Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
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