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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Card Sorting Architecture Decision Record arc42

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	UX Research Card Sorting	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture arc42
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 content only makes sense internally and users can't find the structure again, card sorting exposes their mental order. Terms, groups, and naming are then aligned with the target group's expectations.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	20-45 min	15-45 min	1-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	Based on research question	1-3	1-4
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	Content groups, Label set, IA hypotheses	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Information architectureNavigationStructure	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication

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