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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 Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test 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.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 h pro Pattern20-35 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-61-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationTest Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas