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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 RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen2-8 h30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-205-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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