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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
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 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.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen45-90 minHalber Tag bis mehrere WochenWochen bis Monate je Goal
Participantsdifferent
5-203-84-123-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
StrategyMetricsExecution
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
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