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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes. | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 1-3 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 3-6 | 5-12 Interviews |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds | CustomerOutcomesNeeds |