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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Product Discovery Context Canvas | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | RAID Log, Status Report Source | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |



