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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 15-45 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-3 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |