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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen45-90 min20–45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-202-6Small cross-functional group1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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