Design, with a capital D — the trace table
The falsifiable part of the entry, on its own and with its sources attached. Each row is a claim that a pattern from the anchor work appears at a named place in the estate — checkable against the repositories, which is the only thing that separates this from a reading list.
| Pattern from the anchor | Where the estate implements it | Version | Status | Source of the row |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design is how it works, not how it looks | The estate's Designer role definition, which is built on the formulation and extends it to coherence between internal structure and external experience | — | implemented | team/roles/designer/ROLE.md, cited in 02__ §D2 |
| Start from the user's intent and work backwards (the Ive principle) | The NotebookLM case-study brief, in a section named for the principle, with the MP3-to-CD story as the worked example | v0.7.4 | implemented | v0.7.4__brief__advocate-designer-in-the-loop-notebooklm-case-study.md |
| Good design is invisible — you notice it by reverting and feeling the loss | The Jonathan Ive test: is it simpler? would reverting feel worse? — a mandatory validator for every UI change | v0.7.4 | implemented | v0.7.4__explorer-response__security-and-process-briefs.md |
| Simplicity as subtraction — the feature removed rather than the feature added | Implied by the Ive test's first half and not separately enforced. Nothing records what was taken out of a change | v0.7.4 | partial | the same brief; the test states the criterion, nothing records the outcome |
| The same discipline applied to non-visual surfaces — an API, a CLI, a file format | Nowhere. The validator is scoped to UI changes, and the estate's public surface is mostly not UI | v0.7.4 | absent | the validator's own stated scope |
Every row names where it came from. A trace row is only worth having if you can find out how it was arrived at, so the last column carries the document in the commissioning pack that supports it. No row on this site was written from memory or inference — where the evidence runs out, the row is marked absent or the table says so.
The same rows, as data
The influence map is computed from these files rather than drawn, so the graph cannot disagree with the tables it is made of.