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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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 only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |