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| Criterion |  Architecture arc42 |  UX Research Surveys |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 Tage | 3-14 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 50+ | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | 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 | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |