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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |
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