Project case study · Product design · decisions in context
Condition Map
A decision can still be right while the conditions around it change. Condition Map gives those conditions a place to be named, observed, and tended.
A weekly creative practice
An invented routine. What needs to stay true?
Lower the starting effort: prepare the materials and begin with ten minutes.
Toggle a condition to explore how the next useful action changes.
The question
What needs to stay true for this to keep working?
A routine often fails gradually: time disappears, support changes, or a small source of friction goes unaddressed. A task list records the action but can miss the conditions that sustain it.
Condition Map starts with a focus—a decision, role, routine, or arrangement—and connects it to a small set of conditions. Observations and review timing turn an initial plan into something that can be revisited.
The system
What holds it together
Start with one focus
Keep the map about a specific arrangement, rather than trying to model an entire life.
Name the conditions
The map wizard connects a focus to three to seven conditions and initial observations.
Choose a tending move
An optional action addresses a weak condition within the person's influence, with a success signal and due date.
Ask again
A rapid ‘Still true?’ review records new observations as the situation changes.
How it moves
A map that invites a return
The central interaction connects reflection to a manageable next action.
- Focus
Name what you are sustaining
Choose a routine, decision, role, or arrangement that matters now.
- Map
Make its supports visible
Record the conditions, how they are doing, and the relationships between them.
- Tend
Find a useful move
Choose something actionable and define what improvement would look like.
- Review
Return to the actual situation
Update observations instead of treating the original map as permanently true.
Keep the situation specific
Enough context to act
A practice of returning
Design intention
Support the conditions for action
The project carries a consulting question into software: what makes a situation workable? The answer is rarely a single score. It is a changing set of supports, constraints, observations, and possible interventions.
The product includes private workspaces and persistent maps. The companion example on this page uses an invented routine so visitors can explore the idea without signing in.
Nearby in the constellation
Connected threads
Emergence Engine
Both expose interacting conditions so users can inspect how behavior changes.
shares methodRelational Coherence Navigator
Both support reflection through structured relational dimensions.
shares interfacePolicy Graph
Both use visual relationships to communicate cascading effects.
shares themeI Am Simply a Blank Sheet of Paper
The tool and poem each invite attention to the conditions and relationships that make action possible.