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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 for Solution Interview
Product Discovery
Solution Interview
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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 a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30-60 min je Interview25-40 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation5-10 Interviews1-51-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSolution Feedback, Objection List, Validation NotesLearning Card with evidence and next actionCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ValidationInterviewsPrototype
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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