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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Worst Possible IdeaDesign SprintLotus Blossom
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Worst Possible Idea |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a seemingly familiar problem with paralyzing seriousness, the method dissolves pressure and fear of judgment. It deliberately makes failure pictures extreme, so hidden assumptions become visible faster. This clarifies what a workable path should avoid. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-45 min | 4-5 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 5-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Bad Idea List, Reframed Concepts, Idea Shortlist | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | IdeationCreativityDivergence | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |