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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Agile ROAM Board |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 60-120 min | 45-60 min | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-15 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | ROAM Board, Owner List |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment |