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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)
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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 domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-8 h1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation5-123-10 KundenNutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP RisksClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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