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Selected:Architecture Decision Record Surveys A/B Testing ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	UX Research Surveys	Growth A/B Testing	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 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.	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.	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	Medium	High	Medium
Timedifferent	15-45 min	3-14 Tage	1-4 Wochen	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-3	50+	1-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Async	Async	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights	Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	QuantitativeResearchValidation	ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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