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Selected:Smoke TestARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Shape-First ModelingAssumption Mapping
| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Shape-First Modeling | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Shape-First Modeling defines data quality through shapes before implementation or integration frays at the edges. The approach fits when validation and data contracts should be part of the design from the start. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Halber Tag pro Domain Slice | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-4 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + 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 | SHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape Documentation | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tags1 shared | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Knowledge graphValidationSemantic | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |



