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Criterion
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
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.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.When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage30–60 min per interview1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-1010-501 participant per interview3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummarySketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
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