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UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-201-62-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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Innovation
Lean Startup