Some useful concepts

This page brings together some concepts that we have found particularly useful for handling knowledge.

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Some useful concepts

Constraints and affordances: What can’t you do, and what can you do?

Design rationale: A systematic approach to design

Facet theory: Thinking about more than one set of features

Graph theory: Mapping and analysing knowledge

Knowledge modelling: How people organise their knowledge

Levels of abstraction: How people organise their knowledge into structured hierarchies

Significant absences: What’s not there can be as important as what is there

User/Person centred design: What does this really look like?

Verifier: Finding errors in research

Verifier: More on this approach