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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | 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. | 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. | When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 Kunden |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery |