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Selected:Quality Attribute WorkshopARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Empathy MappingSoftware Architecture Canvas
| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  UX Research Empathy Mapping |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | 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 a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30–60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |