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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture arc42 |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 Tage | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | QuantitativeResearchValidation |
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