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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)SurveysFake Door TestRiskiest Assumption Test
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  UX Research Surveys |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption 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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 3-14 Tage | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 50+ | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tags1 shared | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |