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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Agile ROAM Board |  Domain Modeling EventStorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | 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. | When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-6 h | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 2-8 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 3-15 | 5-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | ROAM Board, Owner List | Event Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop |