Foundation
5 releases
A visible production system for moving ideas through research, design, evaluation, implementation, and public participation by October 29, 2026.
Birthday release contract
By October 29, every experiment earns the same four-part release: a prototype, a consequential interaction, a public route, and an honest first signal from the intended audience.
A Helium experiment route counts as the first public URL. A standalone domain is earned later when evidence supports it.The core journey is clickable and annotated.
One consequential action produces an observable result.
Anyone invited can open it without a handoff or demo.
A real response, session, or behavior is recorded—positive or negative.
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October 28: cross-site QA, accessibility, evidence copy, and portfolio sequencing. October 29: birthday release.
Prototype system
RIPEN governs the Figma prototype. Every project begins with evidence and alternatives, then earns its minimum scope through evaluation and needfinding.
Evidence, context, people and constraints
Three materially different directions
The selected journey made clickable in Figma
Critique, feedback and observed use
What remains unresolved becomes MVP scope
One audience. One consequential action. One observable result.
↓Choose what is essential now.
Resolve requirements, risks, data and dependencies.
Arrange the smallest safe build.
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Experiment registry
Filter the current program, inspect each minimum viable interaction, and follow an experiment from proposition to public release.
Help the public understand a fast-changing emergency without presenting inference as fact.
Move through a five-state incident timeline and separate confirmed facts, public guidance, and AI-generated context.
Make strategic tradeoffs visible while preserving human command authority.
Change hydrant pressure, victim location, and tenability; compare three strategies; record a command rationale.
A research and design studio for problems that refuse to stay bounded.
Explore the studio’s methods, working experiments, evidence, and collaboration pathways.
Make an ordinary regional trip feel unusually prepared and special on a normal working household’s budget.
Choose a traveler profile, preview a destination plan, and obtain the right guide format.
Show a decade of product and UX work through clear evidence and outcomes.
Navigate selected work, understand the practitioner behind it, and start a relevant conversation.
Translate incident-command habits into a practical household and neighborhood preparedness system.
Select a local disruption, assign roles, and generate an offline action and radio plan.
Turn firefighter entry preparation into short, adaptive daily practice.
Complete a ten-minute drill, review answers, and update a visible weak-area profile.
Make the human network of a fire-service career visible before it exists.
Explore relationships from candidate to lieutenant and map likely encounters across ten years of calls.
A portfolio of small, opinionated software products with something to say.
Browse the suite, open a product, and try it with a portable demonstration dataset.
Turn scattered notes and obligations into a humane daily plan.
Paste unstructured notes, triage them, and receive an editable sequence of actions.
Make local ballots understandable without making choices for the voter.
Enter ZIP 98199, compare a sample ballot, and create a personal voting guide.
Give cooks adaptive, voice-friendly help without taking over the kitchen.
Choose a recipe, report what changed, and receive one safe next instruction.
Turn an unfamiliar city into a playful, locally grounded scavenger hunt.
Choose a city and group type, complete one clue, and reveal the next destination.
Let small tools operate on data people can copy, inspect, save, and move themselves.
Import a Notes-friendly dataset, change one record, and export it intact.
Make it easy to discover and buy useful goods from small makers.
Move from an editorial product card into a lightweight purchase decision and checkout handoff.
Shape an imaginative business idea into a testable investment proposition with a ten-year horizon.
Describe an idea, challenge its assumptions, and generate an editable feasibility brief.
Create a neighborhood ice-cream club that feels ceremonial, local, and worth belonging to.
Explore the monthly pint, choose a membership path, and register interest in a tasting.
Explore whether fashion rental can connect personal expression to measurable social impact.
Assemble a rental box and see its price, return cycle, and stated impact allocation.
Connect neighborhood meal preparation to nearby growers, gardens, and gathering places.
Choose a weekly meal bundle and see pickup, ingredient, and capacity information.
Make neighborhood dog care feel transparent, safe, and operationally credible.
Create a dog profile, check fit and availability, and request a first-day assessment.
Publish highly specific books exactly when enough readers need them.
Browse proposed books and add a request that advances one toward its publication threshold.
Share the systems, methods, and operating procedures behind thoughtful product work with AI.
Browse an editorial shelf, read a method, and take away a reusable practice.
Show how a shared design language became an organizational production system.
Move through decomposition, synthesis, governance, and adoption as one visual case study.
Make a fragmented family of civic-data products feel like a coherent government operating system.
Explore the platform problem, proposed model, launch decisions, and resulting evidence.
Help financial professionals interpret structured market data alongside analyst judgment.
Compare the old fragmented workflow with the integrated decision experience.
Reimagine a trusted research workflow through sustained work with students, librarians, and scholars.
Follow one research task from field evidence through product transformation.
Make the research process legible, teachable, and easier to practice deliberately.
Choose a research stage, complete a guided exercise, and leave with a usable artifact.
Show how research and design became a repeatable organizational capability.
Explore the interventions, rituals, standards, and evidence of increasing maturity.
Explore one hundred years of art and design through a sustained monthly publishing practice.
Select a year, encounter one designed artifact, and connect it to the surrounding cultural moment.
Test whether rail-adjacent land could support dignified transitional homes at meaningful scale.
Explore a Seattle-to-Everett corridor map and change unit-count, household, and cost assumptions.
Let counties adapt a universal housing program without losing statewide guarantees.
Select a county, adjust local implementation variables, and see access, capacity, and cost implications.
Apply emergency triage logic to the practical flood of tasks, papers, projects, interests, and goals.
Enter a mixed pile, assign urgency and consequence, and receive a sequenced first pass.
Open participation
Try the experience and show us where reality disagrees.
Bring a practical use case and help define value.
Help a promising experiment earn time and scale.
Add expertise, access, craft, or community context.