Put the different interpretations beside the same artifact.
A technical subject can reach several people and become several different understandings. A working session can help the group see where the meanings diverge and which representation would make the next conversation more useful.
Howard Pearlmutter brings technical, creative, and organizational range to that examination.
A practical session can move through three kinds of work:
- Inspect the current experience. What does the audience encounter? What do different participants believe it means? Which part is difficult to understand or explain?
- Choose the important relationship. What should become visible? Which distinction must survive a change in form? What does the person need to do afterward?
- Define an informative next step. A clearer account, a different visual structure, a prototype, or an interactive model may be useful. Choose the one that answers the current question.
The sequence is a possible shape, tuned to the situation. The work should stay connected to a real subject and the people who need to understand it.
Howard's experience includes executive factory-design software, a NASA human-interface study, ecological animation, rich-media applications, and current media/native/enterprise prototypes. The practical background lets the discussion move into the machinery when the representation depends on it.
Read the factory story, the showroom, and Telos.
A bounded session can be complete in itself. Your team can use the resulting account or next-step brief afterward. Further technical storytelling, interactive explanation, or prototyping can follow where useful.
If you want to explore the idea first, use the coherence check. If the subject is clear enough to discuss, begin with the artifact and audience.
