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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Storytelling |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience 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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-120 min | 15-45 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-6 | 1-3 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |