SNIP™ eCard Deck
70 practical cards for understanding neurocognitive friction — and designing what helps.
The Systemic NeuroCognitive Indexing Protocol™ (SNIP™) is a diagnostic-neutral framework that helps make neurocognitive differences easier to understand and work with in real life.
Rather than starting with labels, SNIP™ looks at where friction actually happens across five functional domains:
Sensory & Emotional Processing (Sensory Reactivity Spectrum)
Cognitive & Temporal Regulation (Hyperfocus Tendency)
Motor & Energy Rhythms (Movement Planning Fluency)
Social & Communication Styles (Social Energy Drain)
Executive Function & Systems Thinking (Prioritization Clarity)
These domains are supported by interacting brain networks involved in attention, salience, meaning-making, working memory, planning and action.
The SNIP™ eCard Deck translates the framework into 70 practical cards, each focused on one specific friction point.
Every card helps you move from:
What am I seeing?
to
What might be creating the friction?toWhat could make this easier?
Cards include practical prompts, design responses and strategies that can be used in coaching, education, leadership, mentoring, team development, or personal reflection.
Designed to be:
Diagnostic-neutral
No labels required and no deficit framing.
Practical
Each card connects a friction point to concrete ways of reducing unnecessary strain.
System-focused
The question shifts away from “What’s wrong with this person?” toward “What is this situation, task or environment asking of this brain?”
Easy to use
Pull one card for a current situation, work through a whole domain, or use the deck alongside the SNIP™ Wheel and friction-mapping tools.
Useful for:
Coaches, mentors, educators, facilitators, leaders, teams, and anyone who wants a clearer way to understand neurocognitive friction without reducing people to a diagnosis.
70 friction points. Five domains. Practical responses. One shared language for designing better conditions.
No diagnosis required. No diagnosis provided.
SNIP™ is a diagnostic-neutral educational and design framework for understanding neurocognitive friction and creating better conditions around it.
SNIP™ and Systemic NeuroCognitive Indexing Protocol™ are proprietary frameworks and trademarks of Alexandra Robuste. © Alexandra Robuste. All rights reserved.
Reviews
As someone with AuDHD, so much advice feels like it understands one half of my brain and completely forgets the other. These cards helped me see why I can crave stimulation and be overwhelmed by it, need structure and resist it, hyperfocus and still struggle to start. I’ve never seen those contradictions mapped this practically.