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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. | When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | 1-3 Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | UX researchObservationContext | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking |