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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  Operations Scatter Diagram |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | When the question is whether two measures are related, the method makes patterns in the data picture visible. It separates felt correlations from relationships that actually show up in the data. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-4 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-8 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | Scatter Plot, Korrelationsnotiz, Hypothesenliste |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | Root causeQualityVisualization |
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