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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Agile ROAM Board |  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. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | 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 | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-10 | 3-15 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | ROAM Board, Owner List | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |