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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 Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
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 decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-120 min30-60 min20-35 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-101-51-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success MetricTest Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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