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| Criterion |  UX Design Customer Journey 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | 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 | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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