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Selected:Usability TestingOutcome-Driven InnovationARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Design Thinking
| Criterion |  UX Research Usability Testing |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product is built but people get stuck on tasks, usability testing shows the friction at concrete points. Observed use instead of self-report makes visible where orientation, understanding, or interaction breaks down. | 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. | 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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h je Session | Mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Based on research question | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Usability Issues, Severity List, Recommendations | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationUXPrototype | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | InnovationPrototypeResearch |