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Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen0.5-2 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
5-204-121-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
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Paper illustration of VUCA Scan with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
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Decision Making
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