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Selected:SurveysArchitecture Communication CanvasViews and BeyondARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  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. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 60-120 min | 1-3 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 2-8 | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |