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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument 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.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
5-203-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanRAID Log, Status Report SourceArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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