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Criterion	UX Research Surveys	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	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 Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.	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	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	3-14 Tage	1-2 h	15-45 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	50+	3-8	1-3	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	QuantitativeResearchValidation	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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