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Selected:Behavior Over Time GraphARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Smoke TestStock and Flow Diagram
| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Behavior Over Time Graph |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Systems Thinking Stock and Flow Diagram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots. | 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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | A Stock and Flow Diagram shows how stocks, inflows, and outflows shape a system over time. It is especially suited when growth, delays, or capacity limits determine the dynamics. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Behavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Stock and Flow Model, Dynamics Notes, Simulation Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | DynamicsSimulationFeedbackSystems thinking |