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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)FlywheelHypothesis Prioritization CanvasFake Door Test
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas | ![]() 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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 60-120 min | 60-90 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | GrowthRetentionConversion | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |



