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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 1-3 Wochen | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-6 | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | UX researchObservationContext | StartupValidationCompetition |