HCD.22:4.4 - Connect activities through usable material

For each transition, identify the actual produced content, any transformation, the recipient and what that recipient will do. This can be brief when the interface is obvious; it must be explicit when it determines whether the next activity is possible.

For example, “annotate before the meeting” leaves the central connection unspecified. A useful annotation identifies the claim, its relevant evidence, the proposed interpretation and the question left open. Before the meeting, the assigned recipient can access those annotations and choose incompatible interpretations for comparison. During the meeting, participants resolve or preserve the disagreement in a result the next task can use.

A shared board must preserve source and condition where their removal changes the inference. Compressing “consistent with resistance if flow and efficiency are unchanged” to “resistance” destroys the basis of the comparison. A summary may simplify presentation while preserving that condition.

Provide a recovery path for absent, late, inaccessible or wrong material. Use a qualified prepared substitute, a viable reassignment, additional explanation or postponement within the learner’s route. Preserve the missing person’s opportunity to perform the intended action later. Giving the group the missing correct result can restore the group task without supplying that person’s learning.

Check the real transfer when the activity changes medium, group or time: one person’s private notes may not be shareable; a screenshot may be unreadable; a report may omit the disputed observation. A calendar event and a submitted file do not establish that the recipient received a usable contribution.