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Criterion
Paper illustration of Solo Brainstorming with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Solo Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Purposedifferent
For an individual thinking problem with no counterpart immediately available, the method creates a protected space for one's own approaches. It prevents outside opinions from narrowing thinking too early. This lets ideas mature before they go into a group format.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.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.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
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-60 min30-60 min2-6 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
13-102-83-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Personal Idea List, Sketches or Mind Map, Pre-Read for Group SessionStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeationAsync
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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