---
title: Raw data
summary: Everything gathered while listening, before anyone interprets it.
type: artifact
order: 1
activity: Listening
loop_stage: discovery/listening
domains: [people, business, technology]
status: draft
version: 0.1
updated: 2026-10-25
sources: [Traditional UX Practice v1.2 (2010)]
confidence: stated
next: matrices
---

Everything gathered while listening, before anyone interprets it.

## Where it comes from

**Activity:** Listening. From the 2010 list: Customer service inquiries and feedback, ethnographic studies, analytics (primary). Business plan audits, third-party research, landscape analysis, relevant and potential technology (secondary). Expert heuristic reviews (tertiary).

## The spec (to be worked)

| Part | What goes here |
| --- | --- |
| Inputs | What this artifact is made from |
| The skill that makes it | The steps an agent or a person follows |
| Shape | A fixed template the next skill can read |
| How it's checked | What has to be true before it counts as done |
| Next | [Matrices](/artifacts/matrices) |

This artifact is a skeleton. Fully worked specs come one at a time, and the [changelog](/changelog) records each one.