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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality |
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