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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  UX Research Diary Study |  Architecture C4 Model |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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 C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-4 Wochen | 1-4 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-20 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |