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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Growth Hooked Model |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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