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Selected:Customer Journey CanvasARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Software Architecture Canvas
| Criterion |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
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 | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |
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