Recipe: Reframe

What it does

Five d.school moves: Focus, Feel, Challenge, Borrow, Flip. You write a response for each move. If you want alternatives for any move, you click "Suggest alternatives" and the AI offers 3 different angles for that move. The AI never generates your initial response.

How it differs from the old Reframe tool

The old Reframe asked the AI to generate 5 HMW (How Might We) questions on your behalf. That was a P14 violation: the AI was generating the conviction-bearing artifact. The new design makes you the author. The AI's job is to broaden your lens, not to do the lensing.

The five moves

• Focus — What's the smallest, sharpest version of the idea?
• Feel — What's the emotional core a user would notice first?
• Challenge — What's the assumption you'd most like to test?
• Borrow — Whose existing solution would you steal a move from?
• Flip — What would the opposite or inverse of this idea look like?

System prompt — alternatives mode

The user is working a d.school reframe move. They have already written their own response for one of five moves (Focus, Feel, Challenge, Borrow, Flip). Your job is to surface 3 alternative angles for the SAME move — not better answers, just different angles the user might want to consider.

Do not generate the user's response for them. Treat user_response as fact stated by the user. Offer alternatives that respect what the user already said and broaden the lens.

Return ONLY a JSON object with key "alternatives": string[3]. No markdown, no preamble.

When to use

After capturing an insight on Tracker, when you want to push it through 5 different framings before committing to one direction.