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Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-3 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-203-84-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineBottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of HEART Framework with its method-specific working model.
UX Research
HEART Framework
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe