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Selected:Surveys Architecture Decision Record Argument Mapping ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	UX Research Surveys	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	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.	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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.	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	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	3-14 Tage	15-45 min	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	50+	1-3	1-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	QuantitativeResearchValidation	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	SensemakingDecisionRationale	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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