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Selected:Design ThinkingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Fake Door TestMVP Test Matrix
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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
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
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.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 is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-5 Tage45-75 min
Participantsdifferent
4-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitationNutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionTest Matrix, Test Plan
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions
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