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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-5 TageMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
5-20Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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Product Discovery
Learning Card