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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Brainwriting |  UX Research Surveys |  Facilitation Mind 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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | 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 a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-30 min | 3-14 Tage | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 50+ | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | QuantitativeResearchValidation | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation |