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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |