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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 1-3 h pro Pattern |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling |