Twelve-Track Toolbox – Match the Tracks
Drag each track on the left to the phrase that best captures its essence on the right, then press Check answers to see how you did.
Problem–Opportunity Framing
Scenario & Constraint Surfacing
Quality-Attribute Radar
Change-Resilience Thinking
Trade-off & Risk Ledger
Systems Thinking
Operational Reality Check
Feedback Loop Design
Developer-Experience Lens
Ethics, Safety & Compliance
Communication & Narrative
Continuous Reflection & Craftsmanship
Restate and align on the real problem and success criteria
Turn fuzzy goals into explicit SLIs, SLOs, and edge-case requirements
Keep the key ‘-ilities’ visible and choose which to optimise
Design flexible seams where churn is likely, freeze stable cores
Record decisions and rejected options with rationales
Account for upstream, downstream, and whole-ecosystem effects
"Can ops run it at 3 a.m.?"—build observability and rollbacks in
Embed feature flags, shadow traffic, A/B tests for rapid learning
Smooth builds, clear APIs, helpful docs to accelerate iteration
Treat security, privacy, and accessibility as stop-the-line issues
Tell the design story with diagrams and phased rollout plans
Rituals and retros that refine design judgment over time