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| Criterion |  UX Research Card Sorting |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Based on research question | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Content groups, Label set, IA hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | Information architectureNavigationStructure | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QuantitativeResearchValidation |