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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-5 TageMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
5-20Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas