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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 Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-180 minMehrere Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-202-6 researchers plus sample1-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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