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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 Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional25-40 min45-90 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-52-8Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsLearning Card with evidence and next actionAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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