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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Innovation Design Charrette |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. | 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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 10-50 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |