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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Hooked Model |  Growth Flywheel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 60-120 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 | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthRetentionConversion |