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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
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 team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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