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UX Research
Diary Study
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Delivery
RAID Log
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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.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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
5-201-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1
Formatsame
AsyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineRAID Log, Status Report SourceAction Lists, Project List, Review Routine
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UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
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