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Selected:SurveysArgument MappingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Outcome-Driven Innovation
| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 1-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | SensemakingDecisionRationale | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |