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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)System Dynamics Simulation A/B Testing Smoke Test

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking System Dynamics Simulation	Growth A/B Testing	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.	System Dynamics Simulation makes assumptions about time, delay, and feedback testable through experiments. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a simulation model and scenario reports.	When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.	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	Medium	High	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	Mehrere Tage bis Wochen	1-4 Wochen	1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5 Modellierende, Stakeholder asynchron	1-6	Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Simulation Model, Scenario Reports	Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingDynamicsSimulationAnalysis	ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth

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