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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory.When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-105-203
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesDiary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineClarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
UX researchTrackingBehavior
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
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Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example