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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() Growth Hooked Model |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | Multiple workshops over several weeks |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | GrowthBehaviorRetention |
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