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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)User InterviewsRisk StormingAssumption Surfacing
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  UX Research User Interviews |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30–60 min per interview | 60-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1 participant per interview | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |