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Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
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.PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
5-20Nutzertraffic2-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NotePESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions
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UX researchTrackingBehavior
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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