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Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 WochenWochen bis Monate je Goal30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-203-101-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsRAID Log, Status Report Source
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UX researchTrackingBehavior
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
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Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree