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Criterion
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
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.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.When a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h30-60 min20-40 min pro Story30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-103-63-7
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListAcceptance Criteria, Story UpdateExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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