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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Agile ROAM Board |  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. | 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 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-15 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | ROAM Board, Owner List | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | SensemakingDecisionRationale |
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