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Selected:1-2-4-AllA/B TestingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Round Robin Brainstorming
| Criterion |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Growth A/B Testing |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 10-20 min | 1-4 Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-100+ | 1-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |