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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 MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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.When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-75 min1-2 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsTest Matrix, Test PlanAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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