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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Paper illustration of Linked Open Terms with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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 story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.Linked Open Terms connects terminology work with linked-data thinking and makes terminology technically connectable. Vocabulary, meanings, and references can thereby be maintained consistently.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen30-60 minWochen bis Monate2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
5-203-72-82-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open QuestionsOntology Requirements, Conceptual Model, Published Ontology, Documentation, Maintenance PlanCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
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UX researchTrackingBehavior
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
OntologyMethodologyAgileSemantic
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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