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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Affinity Diagramming Knowledge Mapping Assumption Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	UX Research Affinity Diagramming	Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping
Purposedifferent	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.	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.	Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45–90 min	1-3 h	45-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	3-12	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas	Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause	KnowledgeMappingRisk	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation

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