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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Consensus WorkshopFake Door TestMVP Test Matrix
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h | 1-5 Tage | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-30 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |



