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Selected:User InterviewsRAID LogARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record
| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  Delivery RAID Log |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |