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A collaborative visualisation that gathers what a team knows about a type of user — what they say, think, do and feel — to build shared understanding and support decisions. * Around a picture of the user, the team pools what they say, do, see, hear, and think & feel (pains and g...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

Compare the two outputs and ask: what was more helpful — information or reflection — and when is AI useful versus a hindrance for finding a solution? The point of running both modes is the comparison, not either one alone. Set the results side by side and interrogate them: Was i...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

Involve stakeholders (especially future users), work iteratively with prototypes, "kill your darlings", and test early and often. * Five execution-phase habits that keep you building the chosen solution well — the counterpart to testing whether you picked the right problem. * Th...

Quiz: CTIU / Problem Solving | updated: Aug 05, 2026

Dogmatic and ideological thinking — holding beliefs as fixed and beyond questioning. Critical thinking is defined partly by its contrast. Its opposite is not "positive" or "trusting" thinking; it is dogmatism (treating a doctrine as settled truth no evidence could revise) and ide...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

It works as an inoculation against manipulation and disinformation — exposure to how bad arguments work builds resistance to dogmatism and ideology. Budelacci frames critical thinking as a protective immunity ("Impfschutz"). Just as a vaccine trains the body to recognise and resi...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Because privacy protects against abuse of power — and a sphere free from surveillance is a precondition for a liberal-democratic society to function and for personal wellbeing. The argument elevates privacy from a comfort to a structural necessity. Without a protected private sph...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Binding yourself in advance against your own future weakness — like Odysseus having himself tied to the mast so he could hear the Sirens without steering the ship to ruin. Odysseus knew the Sirens' song would overpower his judgement, so he didn't rely on willpower in the moment —...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Don't swallow information uncritically; test arguments for logical errors; reflect on your own views; understand how media and technology shape what you see; stay open to changing your mind; back judgements with reasons; and know the limits of perception. Budelacci lists critical...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

Through questioning — his "midwifery of ideas" (maieutiké techné): he didn't deposit answers but asked questions that helped others give birth to insight themselves. Socrates likened his method to his mother's trade as a midwife: he claimed to teach nothing directly, but to deliv...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026

A prison designed so inmates can always be watched but never know when — Foucault's image for power that works through internalised, permanent surveillance rather than force. * Bentham's design: one tower can watch any cell but is never seen back, so inmates self-discipline — Fo...

Quiz: CTIU / New Thinking, Old Thinking | updated: Aug 04, 2026