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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Causal Loop Diagram Evaporating Cloud Behavior Over Time Graph

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud	Systems Thinking Behavior Over Time Graph
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.	A Causal Loop Diagram makes feedback, reinforcement, and balance in a system legible. It uncovers side effects and self-reinforcement that stay hidden in linear explanations.	The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.	A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	60-120 min	20-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	2-8	1-10
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	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments	Behavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking	Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics

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