Bring something you’re working on that could benefit from another perspective.
Start by identifying what would be useful now. It might be an answer, but it could also be a question, a drawing, a prototype, or someone noticing what you have missed.
Before inviting someone in, ask:
- What are we trying to move forward?
- What can I see, and what am I unsure about?
- Who might bring a useful perspective?
- What would they need to encounter the work for themselves?
Share the relevant work, its current state, and the limits of the request. If you are asking for a perspective rather than a decision, make that distinction clear.
An invitation might sound like:
“I can see what this wording says, but I’m unsure whether it carries the intended meaning. Could you look at it in the design and tell me what you notice?”
Leave room for a contribution you did not anticipate. Someone may identify a different question, need more context, or suggest that making something would help more than discussing it.
When the contribution arrives, consider what it changes. Bring that understanding into the work and let the contributor know what followed.
:: current and provisional. the approach can change as we learn.:
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