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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  UX Research Surveys |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 3-14 Tage | 45–90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 50+ | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | QuantitativeResearchValidation | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |