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| Criterion |  UX Research Surveys |  Engineering Golden Path |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  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 teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | 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. | 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 | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 3-14 Tage | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 15-45 min | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 50+ | 2-8 | 1-3 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | QuantitativeResearchValidation | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |