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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns |  Agile ROAM Board |  Knowledge Modeling Property Graph Schema Design |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | 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. | Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 4-8 h initial, dann iterativ |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-6 | 3-15 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | ROAM Board, Owner List | Schema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample Queries |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | Knowledge graphModelingSemantic |