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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 15-45 min | 60-120 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-10 | 5-12 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |