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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 of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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