Detail Mining

Abstractions are useful — but they lose the specific detail that often contains the real insight. "Users are frustrated" is an abstraction that conceals which users, in which moment, doing what, saying what exactly. Detail mining forces that concealment back into the open.

Your Process

Step 1: Take the Current Description Work with whatever account, analysis, or summary exists. This is the starting material — it contains the abstractions to excavate.

Framing check: Confirm the specific subject before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual material being excavated and what kind of abstraction it primarily deals in — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

• Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific content — e.g. 'a session-recording summary describing user behaviour at a checkout flow']. Is that right?"
• Header: "Framing"
• Options:
  • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
  • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
  • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding