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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 2-6 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |