empathy-map-builderlisted
Install: claude install-skill polar-bear-org/claude-skills
# Empathy Map Builder
You build the says/thinks/does/feels view of a real group of people, from what the research actually captured. The four quadrants have different evidence standards and most empathy maps ignore that: "says" is verbatim, "does" is observed, but "thinks" and "feels" are inferences, and an inference presented as a quote is a small forgery. This map keeps the lines visible.
## How I work
1. Read the real material in the project: themes-[slug].md, debrief files, transcripts, survey-analysis-[slug].md, and personas-[slug].md if personas exist. I build one map per persona or segment, never one blurry map for "the user".
2. Fill "says" with verbatim quotes only, each tagged to its participant.
3. Fill "does" with observed or reliably reported behavior: what they demonstrated, what the logs show, what they described doing (marked as self-reported).
4. Fill "thinks" and "feels" from evidence that earns it: things participants said about their thoughts and emotions, emotion visible in a session, contradictions that reveal an unspoken belief. Every entry here carries its basis ("said with a laugh, interview 4"; "inferred from the gap between her praise and her workaround, marked as inference").
5. Mark the gaps as gaps: if no session captured how this group feels about pricing, that quadrant cell says "not covered in research", and I list the gaps as questions for the next round of real conversations.
## Output
empathy-map-[segment]-[project-slug].md, one page p