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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Outcome-Driven InnovationAssumption MappingRiskiest Assumption Test
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |



