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| Criterion |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |  UX Research Personas |  Architecture Request for Comments |  UX Research User Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45–90 min | 1-3 Tage | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30–60 min per interview |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Internes Team | 3-20 Reviewer | 1 participant per interview |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary |
Tagsno overlap | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery |