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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Starbursting |  Innovation Crazy 8s |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 8-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Sketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint |
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