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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke 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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-90 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-6Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid