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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | 1-5 Tage | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking |