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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-10 Interviews | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tags1 shared | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |