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UXR Documentation
UXR Framework Maturity Map
Document status: Current project record
UXR does not mature all at once. Ethical principles, scientific methods, legal safeguards, operational systems, quantitative tools, and governance structures develop at different rates. This map prevents progress in one dimension from being mistaken for completion in another.
| Dimension | Current state | What completion would require |
|---|---|---|
| Ethical and constitutional foundation | Developed and open for public review | Continued stress testing, transparent revision, and durable governance enforcement |
| Conceptual taxonomy | Extensive and actively evolving | Cross-domain testing, definition stability, and evidence that terms improve analysis |
| Relationship-to-burden architecture | Conceptually developed | Research methods capable of detecting avoidance, adaptation, proxy burden, and unexpressed loss |
| Evidence principles | Defined at a high level and being applied in bounded case work | Broader pilots, provenance procedures, privacy design, confidence methods, correction, and appeal testing |
| Core analytical sequence | Defined and integrated into a bounded live case lifecycle | Broader lifecycle testing across domains, institutions, outcomes, corrections, and verification |
| Operational intake | Bounded contributor-to-case workflow operational; broad public intake not launched | Accessible public intake, safety testing, continuity, privacy controls, staffing, and scalable operations |
| Case data architecture | Operational in a bounded pilot | Broader corpus testing, correction/versioning procedures, governance enforcement, and durability at scale |
| Quantitative measurement | Requirements and cautions identified | Validated baselines, sampling methods, uncertainty reporting, distribution analysis, and reliability testing |
| Human Time Dividend | Developing measurement concept | Defensible baselines, population definitions, uncertainty, distribution, and verified outcome preservation |
| Domain-specific rubrics | Not yet developed | Domain expertise, cross-domain consistency, pilots, and published acceptance tests |
| Blue Score | Not operational | Validated categories, weighting, anti-gaming safeguards, appeals, versioning, and predictive usefulness |
| Case publication | Operational in a limited public pilot | Broader evidence review, institutional response, correction, verification, anonymization, and long-duration monitoring tests |
| Governance enforcement | Principles and commitments documented | Legal structure, appointment rules, disclosures, conflicts controls, succession, and enforceable remedies |
| Legal review | Not completed | Qualified jurisdiction-specific review of operations, publication, privacy, marks, licensing, and certification |
| Protection and provenance | Public notices and internal publication records exist | External archival deposits, repository history, permanent identifiers, registrations, and durable succession controls |
| Pilot validation | Limited real-world case pilot underway; validation not complete | A larger and more varied set of pilots with published failures, corrections, method changes, and reliability evidence |
What Changed Recently
Several capabilities previously described as planned or conceptual are now operating in bounded form: case architecture, contributor-to-case workflow, public case publication, related-incident grouping, resolution-layer tracking, and a public Cases registry. That is operational progress, not proof of scientific validation.
How to Read This Map
Developed does not mean beyond criticism. Published does not mean universally validated. Operational in a bounded pilot does not mean mature at scale. Scientific in method does not mean scientifically validated as an instrument.
A mature claim must identify the dimension in which maturity has actually been demonstrated.
This Map Moves With the Project
The maturity map is a current snapshot. Live case work and reviewer feedback are expected to change it. Reviewers are encouraged to identify dimensions that appear overstated, understated, missing, or sequenced incorrectly.
Related Documents
Live UXR Cases · What UXR Is, What It Is Not, and What Exists Today · Current Project Status · UXR Roadmap