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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Growth ExperimentExperiment CanvasFake Door Test
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Growth Growth Experiment | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment 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. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |



