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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 HEART Framework with its method-specific working model.
UX Research
HEART Framework
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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.Helps clarify observations, needs, and patterns in concrete terms. It groups observations into patterns, questions, and decisions. The result is captured as a HEART-GSM table and dashboard.When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-120 min120 min initial, dann laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-103-62-6
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 PlanHEART-GSM Table, DashboardCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
MetricsUX researchMeasurementSatisfaction
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
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