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Criterion
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Purposedifferent
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.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.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-1210-50
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
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BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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