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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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