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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  Growth Hooked Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-3 Wochen | Multiple workshops over several weeks |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | UX researchObservationContext | GrowthBehaviorRetention |