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Criterion
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
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.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.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.
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Timedifferent
1-3 hHalf day10-20 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-124-100+4-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsLeverage Map, Action StrategyIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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