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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Engineering Golden Path |  Architecture Views and Beyond |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 15-45 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-3 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-3 | 2-8 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture |