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Criterion
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas
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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend20-35 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
11-5Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Action Lists, Project List, Review RoutineTest Card with a pre-set thresholdPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsPrioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog
Tagsno overlap
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis
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