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Selected:Architecture Decision Record Affinity Diagramming Smoke Test ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	UX Research Affinity Diagramming	Product Discovery Smoke Test	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	15-45 min	45–90 min	1-5 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-3	3-10	Nutzertraffic	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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