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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  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 switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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 | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 Wochen | 1-3 h | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 5-12 Interviews | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |