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Criterion
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Purposedifferent
When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.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.Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
3-14 Tage2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalMehrere Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
50+Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-6 researchers plus sample4-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
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QuantitativeResearchValidation
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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