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Criterion
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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.
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LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 hHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-103-1010-50
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
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BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
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Architecture Inception Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas