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Selected:PersonasARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Outcome-Driven InnovationJobs to Be Done
| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen | 1-3 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-12 Interviews |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CustomerOutcomesNeeds |