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Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
10-20 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-100+Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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