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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |