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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 1-3 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 Beobachtungen |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | UX researchObservationContext |