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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 a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning 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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-120 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-101-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + 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 PlanLearning Card with evidence and next action
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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Fake Door Test
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