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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
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 a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h25-40 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-101-53-10 Kunden
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogLearning Card with evidence and next actionConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
JourneyServiceService design
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
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