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| Criterion | ![]() Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The NeOn Methodology structures ontology work as a controlled process with reuse, scenarios, and reviews. It is useful when ontologies should not emerge ad hoc but modularly and reusably. | 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. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate | 30-60 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 1-5 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



