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Selected:SurveysArchitecture Decision RecordDesign ThinkingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.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
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage15-45 min1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
50+1-34-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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QuantitativeResearchValidation
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
InnovationPrototypeResearch
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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