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Criterion
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
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
3-102-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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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
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
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