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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Agile ROAM Board |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h | 45-60 min | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-15 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | ROAM Board, Owner List |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment |