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Selected:Card SortingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Problem InterviewExperiment Canvas
| Criterion |  UX Research Card Sorting |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Problem Interview |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min je Interview | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Based on research question | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-12 Interviews | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + 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 | Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer Segments | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | Information architectureNavigationStructure | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | DiscoveryInterviewsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |