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Selected:Architecture Decision RecordDesign ThinkingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Outcome-Driven Innovation
| Criterion |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 | 4-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |