1) Description of the field, problem, theme, challenge, purpose. Relevance.

Description of the object. Use of the Aristotelian categories.

2) Instrumental elements. Techniques mastered, existing knowledge, paradigms, practices, examples. Adaptation of the method to the case.

3) Intuited understandings. Depending on the need use of different sources of experience:

-Sensory experience, somatic eye, mono-logical, sensitive, empiricism

-Mental experience, mind’s eye, dialogical, intelligible, rationalism

-Spiritual experience, eye of the spirit, trans-logical, transcendent, mysticism

Aristotelian doctrine of signatures: analogies, emulation, etc.

4) Prototype creation.

First resultant version from the particular tekhne.

5) Testing the prototype.

Evaluation and internal criticism. Introduction of prototypical improvements.

6) Creation of the artifact.

Consciousness of its characteristics, adaptation to the purpose, advantages, etc.

7) Presentation before a community.

External evaluation by experts, external criticism. Incorporation of improvements in the artifact.

8) Introduction of the artifact in society. Production process, if it’s the case.

Acceptance by the stakeholders.

9) Influences in the live of people and communities.

Personal, cultural, social changes, changes in knowledge, etc.

10) Balance in the creation of common good, wellbeing, utility or knowledge.