View methods side by side.
Choose up to four methods. Add them using the search and share the comparison by copying its link.
| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |