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Selected:Customer Journey Canvas Architecture Inception Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Goal Question Metric

Criterion	UX Design Customer Journey Canvas	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Goal Question Metric
Purposedifferent	When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.	Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	90-180 min
Participantsdifferent	3-10	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-6
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	GQM Table, Metric Profiles
Tagsno overlap	JourneyCustomerService designCanvas	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment

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