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Selected:Current Reality Tree Surveys Causal Loop Diagram ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree	UX Research Surveys	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	High	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2-6 h	3-14 Tage	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	3-8	50+	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas	Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality	QuantitativeResearchValidation	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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