Daily team · 2026-10-10

Four Corners, Out and Back

Camping checklist grouped by shelter, cooking, clothing, and safety, printable.

Team for 2026-10-10: Game designer · Service designer · Comic artist · Sisyphus

Decision: The page is an editable camping checklist that prints on 1 A4 sheet as 4 drawn panels (shelter, cooking, clothing, safety), with Out and Back tick boxes on every line and each item's weight in grams summed per panel in kilograms.

The tool

The session

Pitch

1Game designer

One Sheet, Four Corners

I watched 3 people pack from the old list. All 3 people skipped page 2.

One person folded it in half and the safety half stayed in a jacket pocket.

So: 1 A4 sheet, 4 quadrants. Shelter top left, safety bottom right.

Each line is a box, an item, a count with its unit. "Tent pegs: 8 pegs." "Water: 4 L."

No intro, no tips, no logo.

Over 40 lines total and I start cutting.

2Service designer

Out and Back

Every checklist has 1 box per item, ticked on the way out. I break that one rule.

Each line gets 2 boxes. Out, ticked at home. Back, ticked at the campsite on the last morning.

The lighter you lose is the one on the picnic table, not the one in your kitchen drawer.

Same list, read twice, opposite directions.

Everything else stays plain. Plain is what makes the 1 odd column readable.

3Comic artist

Four Panels

Picture who reads this. Kneeling at a car boot, headlamp on, hands cold.

The sheet reads as 4 panels. Thick 2 mm border, 1 small drawing per panel.

Tent, pot, boot, first-aid cross. You know the group before you read a word.

Text at 12 pt minimum. Pencil ticks need room, so boxes are 6 mm square.

One day of work: 4 drawings, 1 grid, done.

4Sisyphus

The Smaller Stone

I have pushed the same weight up the same slope for longer than anyone has counted.

The slope never changes. The stone can.

You will pack this list 10 times, 20 times. Build for the 20th time.

Edit the items once. The browser keeps them. Print again with 1 click.

Every item carries its weight in grams. Every quadrant shows its total in kilograms.

And a blank at the foot: "Packed in ___ min." Write it each trip. Watch it fall.

Clash

1Game designerService designer, 2 boxes per line doubles the ink. None of my 3 people looked at a list on the way home.
2Service designerGame designer, they didn't look because the list never asked them to. One forgotten stove is a 40 km drive back.
3Comic artistService designer, then keep the Back column narrow, 6 mm, and head it with a tiny car pointing left. Nobody reads the word "Back" by headlamp.
4SisyphusGame designer, I count every column as a stone. This one gets pushed once per trip, at the end, when hands are tired and the car is half loaded. It earns its place.
1Game designerSisyphus, fine. Then your minutes blank goes. Nobody times their packing at a car boot.
4SisyphusGame designer, counting is how the stone gets lighter. But the kilogram totals tell the same story, so I give you the minutes.
3Comic artistSisyphus, grams on every line crowd the panels. "340 g, 1200 g, 85 g" reads like a shop receipt.
4SisyphusComic artist, the receipt is the point. A packer who sees 6.2 kg in shelter asks which pole to leave behind.
3Comic artistThey ask that at the desk, on the screen. Put the gram column on screen only and print just the quadrant totals.
4SisyphusComic artist, the paper is what climbs the hill. I will not hide the weight from it.

Decision

The page is an editable camping checklist that prints on 1 A4 sheet as 4 drawn panels (shelter, cooking, clothing, safety), with Out and Back tick boxes on every line and each item's weight in grams summed per panel in kilograms.

Concept: Four Corners, Out and Back

Game designer: 1 A4 sheet, 4 quadrants in fixed order, a 40 line cap, every count written with its unit, and no intro text.
Service designer: the second tick box, Back, on every line, for the last morning at the campsite.
Comic artist: 4 panel drawings, 2 mm borders, 12 pt text, 6 mm boxes, and a car icon heading the Back column.
Sisyphus: items edited once and saved in the browser, a print button, a gram value on every line, and a kilogram total in each panel header.
Losses: Sisyphus lost the "Packed in ___ min" blank because the panel totals already show progress between trips. The Comic artist lost screen-only grams because weight is what a repeat packer cuts, and the cut is decided at the car as often as at the desk. The grams print at 9 pt grey in a 12 mm right column so they stay out of the 12 pt item text.

Build notes

Build a CSS grid of 2 columns by 2 rows sized to 190 mm × 277 mm under @media print. Each panel holds an inline SVG drawing in its header, its kilogram total, and up to 10 rows of [Out 6 mm box] [Back 6 mm box] [item] [count + unit] [g].
Store items as JSON in localStorage under camp-list-v1. Each item has a name, count, unit, grams, and group. Use contenteditable fields on screen and recompute each panel total on input as sum(g) / 1000, shown to 1 decimal place with "kg". Disable the add row button when the sheet reaches 40 lines.
Seed the page with 32 default items, 8 items per group. Add a validation pass that rejects any count saved without a unit and outlines that field with a 1 px red border. Add one window.print() button that is hidden in print.

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