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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-4 Wochen15-45 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-206-30 Experten2-84-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, DifferentiatorsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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