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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |