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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Growth Hooked Model |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 60–90 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |