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Selected:Solution Interview Golden Path ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Problem Interview

Criterion	Product Discovery Solution Interview	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Problem Interview
Purposedifferent	When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.	When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.	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 the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	30-60 min je Interview	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-60 min je Interview
Participantsdifferent	5-10 Interviews	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	5-12 Interviews
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer Segments
Tagsno overlap	ValidationInterviewsPrototype	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	DiscoveryInterviewsValidation

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