How many concepts should I generate?
Enough that the selection is meaningful, usually three to five genuinely different approaches. Two plausible options plus a straw man is transparent. The comparison is what demonstrates judgment, so the alternatives have to be real.
This comes up on Engineering Design Projects, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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