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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Product Canvas |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point. | When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-4 Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 Kunden | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasDiscoveryScope | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |