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Selected:Design SprintARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Hypothesis Prioritization CanvasTest Card
| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 60-90 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |