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| Criterion |  Innovation Starbursting |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  UX Design Design Studio |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Sketches, Concept Directions, Design Decisions | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | SketchingCollaborationIdeation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |