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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
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Growth
Flywheel
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Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen60-120 min5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
5-203-81-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
GrowthRetentionConversion
StartupValidationCompetition
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Growth
Funnel Analysis
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Product Discovery
Landing Page Test