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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

It comes from the ancient Greek verb "krínein" (to separate, judge, decide) — so "critique" originally means the art of judging and distinguishing well, not the act of badmouthing something. In everyday speech "to criticise" carries a negative charge: to find fault, to complain....

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

Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort of holding contradictory beliefs or acting against your beliefs — and people often resolve it by strengthening the belief rather than abandoning it. * Belief clashing with reality creates discomfort; the cheap fix is to rationalise and doub...

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

Intent: fake news is deliberately fabricated to manipulate — to grab attention/clicks, wear down or unsettle an opponent, sow doubt, or recruit — whereas rumours, gossip, legends and satire are not produced as strategic deception. The line is about purpose, not merely falsehood:...

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

"No one can think without stopping" — thinking requires deliberately halting the stream of activity, and ceaseless busyness lets responsibility evaporate. Arendt's phrase "stop and think" captures a precondition of judgement: you cannot actually reflect while caught up in restles...

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