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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 World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
Paper illustration for Peer Instruction.
Knowledge Modeling
Peer Instruction
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
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 group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.Peer Instruction uses group thinking to clarify difficult terms or concepts faster. The method combines individual reflection with social correction and shared precision.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-180 min10-20 min je Frage25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation12-100+6-501-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsTable Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsConcept Questions, Vote Results, Learning NotesLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
LearningDialogueFacilitation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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