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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Agile ROAM Board |  Decision Making Option Framing |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-15 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | ROAM Board, Owner List | Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison |
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