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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Cynefin WorkshopDesign ThinkingArgument Mapping
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Decision Making Argument 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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 60-180 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-20 | 4-10 | 1-8 |
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 | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | InnovationPrototypeResearch | SensemakingDecisionRationale |