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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
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.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 Wochen1-2 h Setup, laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-10 Kunden11-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP RisksAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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