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Criterion
Paper illustration for Problem Interview
Product Discovery
Problem Interview
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Purposedifferent
When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.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.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.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
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview30-60 min20-45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews3-104-103-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer SegmentsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListIdea List, Cluster, ShortlistLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryInterviewsValidation
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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