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| Criterion |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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