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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 4-12 | 3-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | FacilitationOptionsDecision | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | DecisionTreeOptions |