Define·Research Access·Agency·Developing·DEF-017

Project Context Assembly

Value hypothesis

Transforms accumulated project knowledge into a queryable intelligence layer, enabling teams to surface relevant precedent, constraints, and insights on demand rather than through manual document search.

Efficiency · Innovation

The designer creates a Project Knowledge Base - an ad hoc but intentionally cultivated collection of project-specific materials (design system rules, heuristics, principles, prior research, user feedback) loaded into a context the designer can query on demand. This is a project-scoped working intelligence layer, not a systematic cross-project repository: it grows through deliberate human curation rather than automated ingestion, and is distinct from the organisation-wide Research Repository covered in IMP-059.

Risks in application

Shallow Solutions

The knowledge base creates confidence in AI-synthesized answers that may be incomplete, outdated, or misrepresent the nuance of source documents.

Black Box Rationale

As AI synthesizes across documents, the specific source reasoning behind an answer becomes opaque; practitioners may accept synthesized guidance without tracing it to its origin.

Expertise that differentiates

Information Architecture

Deciding what belongs in the knowledge base, how to structure it for AI consumption, and what constitutes useful vs. noisy or outdated content.

Research and Insight

Curating research outputs, heuristics, and user feedback to ensure the knowledge base reflects actual evidence rather than assumptions or received wisdom.

AI Fluency that assures

Product Discernment

Loaded into a context the designer can query on demand.

Deciding what belongs in the knowledge base, how to structure it for AI consumption, and what constitutes useful vs. noisy or outdated content.

Curating research outputs, heuristics, and user feedback to ensure the knowledge base reflects actual evidence rather than assumptions or received wisdom.