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Criterion
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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 a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-5 Tage25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
1Designers, developers as users, and facilitationNutzertraffic1-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Action Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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