jpex / experiment fieldbook

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The small digital experiment record.

A practical sequence for making a question, a variation and a review note understandable.

1. Name the question

Choose one relationship you can inspect. Avoid a brief as broad as making a whole product better.

State what a useful observation would look like.

2. Define the frame

Record the elements and context included in the study. Identify what remains outside it.

Choose boundaries that make the comparison manageable.

3. Save a baseline

Keep the initial version with the question and the conditions around it.

A later comparison needs something more reliable than memory.

4. Make a variation

Name what you change and what remains constant. Save the new version beside the first.

If several variables move together, record that fact.

5. Describe the difference

Point to the visible or otherwise established change. Separate observation from interpretation.

Do not claim a user outcome you did not examine.

6. Review the limits

Ask which other explanation or condition could matter. Identify what method would be needed to examine it.

A visual study is not a substitute for every kind of validation.

7. Keep the next question

Save the versions and review note together. Choose the next useful investigation.

An unresolved result can still clarify the work.

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