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Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-82-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
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Product Strategy
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