CDLA · Module 5 — Interaction design for transfer
Decision nodes, preferred paths and failure teaching, signed before anyone builds.
About 20 min
Practice in the lesson player
Sorting, matching, quizzes, and the module gate stay behind a free account so scored answers are not public. The teaching notes below are the same cited curriculum.
01
A branch map has one row per decision node: the situation and pressure, two to four options, the preferred path flagged for SME review, the consequence of each option, and feedback text. Architects deliver the map before production opens the authoring tool. The CEPD program builds from this map.
02
Field | Entry
Situation | Supervisor on the phone: "Skip the isolation, the line has to restart in ten minutes."
Option A (preferred) | Refuse politely, explain the risk, offer the fastest safe route, inform the shift manager
Option B | Comply this once and log it
Option C | Refuse and hang up
Consequence A | Line restarts 25 minutes late; no incident; shift manager supports the call
Consequence B | Hand injury during restart; investigation finds the log entry
Consequence C | Supervisor escalates a complaint; the safety point is lost in the conflict
Signer | Site safety lead
03
The quality of a branch depends on its wrong options. Silly options teach nothing and make the right answer obvious. Take wrong options from evidence: QA findings, incident reports, complaint logs, the novice errors you found in the CTA interviews, and what new staff say they would do. A good wrong option is something a reasonable person under pressure would choose. If your SME says "nobody would do that", either it is a bad option or the SME is wrong; check the incident log.
04
Write three complete nodes for your highest-risk decision using the template on slide 2. Source every wrong option from evidence and note where it came from. Send the map to your SME for the preferred-path review. This is your module artifact's core.