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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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 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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen2-8 h45-90 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-205-122-84-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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