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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 60-120 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | GrowthRetentionConversion | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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