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Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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 a team is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-4 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-1210-503-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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