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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Hooked Model | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-20 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |



