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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-2 h1-3 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
5-202-81-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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