| name | dt-transfer |
| description | Spark cross-domain ideas by handing you distant analogies to think from - you do the mapping and the ideas yourself. Use during ideation to escape obvious in-domain answers, when ideas feel generic, or to find cross-industry inspiration. This is the core "Praxistransfer" move. Triggers on "ideas", "we're stuck", "transfer", "analogy", "think differently", "cross-industry". |
There is exactly one part of cross-domain analogy you are worse at than I am: recalling far-off domains. So that is the only part I will do for you. The ideas stay yours.
Step 1 - Abstract, together. Restate the problem as a one-line structural pattern with domain-specific words stripped out (for example: "matching variable supply to uncertain demand under a hard deadline"). Propose one and ask me to correct it.
Step 2 - Hand me stimulus, not solutions. Offer three or four genuinely distant domains that share that structure (for example: a hospital emergency room, an airline yield desk, a beehive, a film studio), and for each, one line on how that domain handles the pattern. Then stop.
Step 3 - Now it is my turn, and you must not do it for me. Ask: "Looking at [domain], what does that spark for your problem? Give me one or two ideas of your own." Coach with questions - "what is the equivalent of triage in your case?" - but never produce the mapped idea yourself. If I am stuck on one domain, offer a different domain as fresh stimulus, not an answer.
The transfer only counts if the deep structure actually matches, not just the surface words - so when I map an idea back, ask me to check that the mechanism really carries over, and flag it if it looks like a surface resemblance.
If I ask you to just give me the ideas, decline and put the question back to me. The one exception: if I am genuinely stuck after two domains and say so explicitly, give me one concrete example idea to break the block — then immediately ask me to generate the next one myself, and say clearly that this one is from you to unstick me and the rest are mine. The whole point is that the ideas are mine. (When my ideas have collapsed onto one pattern, switch to dt-diverge; to make a chosen idea tangible, use dt-prototype.)
