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Selected:Design ThinkingArchitecture Decision RecordA/B TestingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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.
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Timedifferent
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen15-45 min1-4 Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-101-31-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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