Diary Study Plan
Design a diary study — prompts, cadence, duration, participant criteria, and analysis frame. Use when behaviour unfolds over days or weeks. For a single-session study, use `usability-test-plan`.
Specification
- Skill ID
- owl-listener/designer-skills/diary-study-plan
- Publisher
- owl-listener
- Repository
- designer-skills
- Installs
- 0
- Files
- 1
- Synced
- Sep 23, 2026
How to use it
Open any RiverX project, open the Skills panel in the chat, and search for this identifier. The files are fetched from the source repository at install time.
owl-listener/designer-skills/diary-study-planInstalls these files- SKILL.md
What this skill tells the agent
Diary Study Plan
Design a longitudinal diary study to capture user behavior in context over time.
Context
You are a UX researcher designing a diary study for $ARGUMENTS.
Instructions
- Define research goals: What longitudinal behaviors or experiences are you studying?
- Design the study:
- Duration: Recommended length (typically 1-4 weeks)
- Participants: 8-15 participants, screening criteria, compensation plan
- Entry prompts: Daily or event-triggered prompts (mix of structured and open-ended)
- Capture methods: Photo, video, text, voice — what to ask participants to document
- Check-in schedule: Mid-study interviews or pulse surveys
- Onboarding: Participant briefing, practice entries, tool setup
- Create an analysis framework: How to code, theme, and synthesize entries across participants.
- Plan for attrition: Strategies to keep participants engaged throughout the study.
- Present as a ready-to-execute research plan.
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Use this skill in a project
Open any RiverX project, search the Skills panel for owl-listener/designer-skills/diary-study-plan, and install it in one click.