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

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Growth A/B Testing	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	1-4 Wochen	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-8	1-6	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	SensemakingDecisionRationale	ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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