Formats
A format is a shape that has already decided part of what belongs in it.
It has also decided part of what it will not hold. What goes in is yours. The rules come with the shape. Each one is written down: a page at most, plain text, free. They name no course and no year.
A brief can be a format. An interview is a format. A monologue is a format.
Where a format carries a view of mine, the view is marked and set apart from the rules around it. Those blocks are not part of the format. Take the rules and leave them, or argue with them; either way what is left works.
Searches the rules inside every format. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
A smart system, in seven lines
The minimum criteria: it counts, it decides, it acts. Miss one and it is a sensor, a meter, a remote or a timer.
A mockup, in seven lines
A thing you make to find something out, and then do not keep. Its FAKE line is the whole format.
Working knowledge, in six lines
What you can actually do, as against what you know about. Asks for instances with dates, not claims.
A scoping study, in seven lines
A bounded look at something you have not decided to do yet. Mostly about the ending.
A brief, in seven lines
What is fixed, what the maker decides, and what will not be asked for later.
An interview, in six rules
One person asks, one answers. Five of the six rules are things the asker does not do.
A monologue, in five
One person speaking, uninterrupted, with no reply expected.
A specification, in ten lines
A description of a thing that does not exist yet, complete enough that something else could build it.