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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Product Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
Product Canvas
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point.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 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.When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h1-3 h45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-83-83-104-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope NotesSketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, ShortlistIdea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
CanvasDiscoveryScope
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence
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