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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Purposedifferent
The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
25-40 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage20-35 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-510-501-53-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Learning Card with evidence and next actionSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionTest Card with a pre-set thresholdStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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