You have a pile of notes and a head full of observations. Your job now is to find out what they mean — not what to do about them yet.

This block is where most design days fall apart. Teams skip straight from "here's what I saw" to "let's rebuild everything" — and make things  worse. The five steps below exist to slow that  impulse down long enough to understand the pattern before you act on it.

One insight. One fix. That's the entire output of this block.

This is the most important 5 minutes of the  morning. Everything else in this block was preparation for this moment.