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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Agile ROAM Board |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Assumption 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 20-35 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-15 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | ROAM Board, Owner List | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |