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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
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.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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-60 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
NutzertrafficDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation2-81-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk rankingCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
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ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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