{
  "slug": "design",
  "title": "Design, with a capital D",
  "tier": "traced",
  "principle": "Design is not decoration applied after engineering — it is how the thing works. Start from what the person is trying to do and work backwards to the simplest interaction that does it.",
  "anchor": {
    "title": "“Design is how it works” — the Jobs formulation the estate's Designer role is built on",
    "author": "Steve Jobs",
    "note": "**Anchor unconfirmed.** The formulation is from the 2003 *New York Times Magazine* profile linked above; the candidates for what actually did the shaping are that piece, the MP3-to-CD whiteboard story, a keynote, or a specific product. Asked as [Q2b](../../admin/comms.html#q2b).",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/the-guts-of-a-new-machine.html",
    "quote": {
      "id": "how-it-works",
      "text": "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.",
      "who": "Steve Jobs",
      "note": "Quoted to be examined, and it is the whole entry in one line: design is named as a property of the mechanism rather than of the surface."
    }
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "pattern": "Design is how it works, not how it looks",
      "where": "The estate's Designer role definition, which is built on the formulation and extends it to coherence between internal structure and external experience",
      "version": null,
      "status": "implemented",
      "source": "`team/roles/designer/ROLE.md`, cited in 02__ §D2"
    },
    {
      "pattern": "Start from the user's intent and work backwards (the Ive principle)",
      "where": "The NotebookLM case-study brief, in a section named for the principle, with the MP3-to-CD story as the worked example",
      "version": "v0.7.4",
      "status": "implemented",
      "source": "`v0.7.4__brief__advocate-designer-in-the-loop-notebooklm-case-study.md`"
    },
    {
      "pattern": "Good design is invisible — you notice it by reverting and feeling the loss",
      "where": "**The Jonathan Ive test**: *is it simpler? would reverting feel worse?* — a mandatory validator for every UI change",
      "version": "v0.7.4",
      "status": "implemented",
      "source": "`v0.7.4__explorer-response__security-and-process-briefs.md`"
    },
    {
      "pattern": "Simplicity as subtraction — the feature removed rather than the feature added",
      "where": "Implied by the Ive test's first half and not separately enforced. Nothing records what was taken out of a change",
      "version": "v0.7.4",
      "status": "partial",
      "source": "the same brief; the test states the criterion, nothing records the outcome"
    },
    {
      "pattern": "The same discipline applied to non-visual surfaces — an API, a CLI, a file format",
      "where": "Nowhere. The validator is scoped to UI changes, and the estate's public surface is mostly not UI",
      "version": "v0.7.4",
      "status": "absent",
      "source": "the validator's own stated scope"
    }
  ],
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic)"
}