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| Criterion |  UX Design Design Studio |  Innovation Starbursting |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |