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Criterion	UX Research First-click Testing	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent	When users immediately turn the wrong way on a screen or wireframe, first click testing checks initial orientation at high speed. The first click shows early whether expectation, labeling, and wayfinding fit together.	When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 Tage	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	10-30	1-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	Click Heatmap, Success Rate, Design Recommendations	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	UXNavigationFindabilityValidation	SensemakingDecisionRationale	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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