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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |