HCD.18:4.1 - Recover the promise and stop if an existing specification fits

Name the material edition and the portion to be judged. Distinguish its content from a particular export when font size, navigation, image resolution, or interaction changes access. Identify the intended audience and prerequisites at the level that changes the tasks: “can add time intervals” is useful in the worked case; an invented demographic persona is not.

State the ordinary material, tools, source returns, teacher help, and peer or AI assistance. Separate what is promised from what is available and what later proves to be used. For an intended future audience, these are design conditions, not observations about already identified people.

Name the decision: for example, select between two explanations for a supervised exercise, repair a course’s planning task, or authorize a specified self-study use. Say what a wrong positive conclusion would cost. This selects the evaluation grain and evidence burden.

Compare an existing specification by value: object kind, audience, task denominator, support arrangement, relied-on subject state, properties, value meanings, evidence, and consuming decision. A matching title or the same 0–5 labels do not establish compatibility. If the existing specification fits, stop construction and use it. If only one requirement changed, retain the compatible parts and repair the affected specification content.