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Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
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.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down1-2 h Setup, laufendHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-82-4 pro Pitch110-50
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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