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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | StrategyMetricsExecution | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |
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