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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Product Vision Board |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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