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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Outcome-Driven InnovationRiskiest Assumption TestLearning Card
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test | ![]() Product Discovery Learning 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. | 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 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 1-5 |
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 | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |



