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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 2-3 h | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-5 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |