# Designing concept configurations: help needed

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**Created:** [July 30, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/designing-concept-configurations-help-needed/212 "2024-07-30T19:12:55Z")
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#### Post date: [August 12, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/designing-concept-configurations-help-needed/212/5 "2024-08-12T18:11:24Z")

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I wonder if the design considerations around context and concept extent are related to Andrew Hinton’s work on context.

See prior thread:

> [@Andrew Hinton's Understanding Context](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/andrew-hintons-understanding-context/84):
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> I’m reading Andrew Hinton’s fascinating 2014 book [Understanding Context](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-context/9781449326531/). The key idea is that much of the complexity and difficulty that we face when using an app (for example) arises from confusions about the context in which we find ourselves, and the signals we receive from the environment in interpreting that context. In a wonderful opening chapter (which you can read under [Look inside me](https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Context-Environment-Information-Architecture/dp/1449323170?asin=1449323170&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1) on the book’s Amazon page), he describes the experience of navigating an airport checkin. One example: …

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