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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Delivery RAID Log |  Facilitation Alignment 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. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 15-45 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-10 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |