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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
Innovation
Morphological Analysis
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Purposedifferent
When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-62-83-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogMorphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea ShortlistStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
IdeationInnovationCreativity
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette