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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h | 10-20 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 4-12 | 4-100+ | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |



