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Criterion
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
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.Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.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
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 h2-8 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-102-85-1210-50
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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