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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 20-35 min | 4-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-5 | 5-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |