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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tags1 shared | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |