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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)HEART Framework Pirate Metrics AARRR Smoke Test

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	UX Research HEART Framework	Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR	Product Discovery Smoke 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.	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.	For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks.	When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	120 min initial, dann laufend	1-2 h Setup, laufend	1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-6	2-8	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	HEART-GSM Table, Dashboard	AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MetricsUX researchMeasurementSatisfaction	GrowthMetricsExperiments	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth

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