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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() UX Research Surveys | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 3-14 Tage | 30-60 min | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 50+ | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |



