Quality gate
Review
Review leads with consequences, not personal taste.
Designesy Review is the quality-control layer for interfaces, products, artifacts, identity systems, design systems, agent output, and environmental or experiential design. It evaluates purpose, clarity, context, inclusion, system coherence, durability, delight, responsibility, and verification proof.
Review dimensions
Purpose
What is the design trying to make possible? Which elements directly support that purpose? What can be removed without weakening action?
Clarity
Is the primary action discoverable? Does the form suggest use? Do labels, hierarchy, layout, and motion reduce uncertainty?
Context
Where and when will this be used? What constraints shape the experience: device, bandwidth, attention, lighting, language, ability, stress, social setting, maintenance?
Inclusion
Who benefits most? Who has to work harder? What assumptions about body, language, culture, knowledge, money, or technology are embedded?
System coherence
Does this follow an existing system? If it breaks the system, is the reason explicit and worth it? Can others reuse or extend the decision?
Durability
Will this hold up under repeated use? Can it be maintained, repaired, localized, and adapted? Is the need more durable than the trend?
Delight
Does the emotional quality clarify purpose, trust, identity, learning, or human connection? Or does it distract from weak function?
Responsibility
What environmental, economic, social, or human costs are hidden? Does the design distribute effort fairly? What would make it more honest?
Agent review stance
Peer checks for agents and reviewers.
Quality bar
Standard
The artifact should feel considered after it becomes functional.
Functional is the baseline. Considered is the bar. An artifact is ready when every dimension above has been checked, tradeoffs have been named, and the remaining tensions are documented — not hidden.
Field checks
Poise
Kit One output format on the live lab.
Eight dimensions, holds, tensions, corrections, and keyboard-path proof — rules adopted into contract v0.1.1.
Open field check →Takt
Kit One output format on the interface-feel lab.
Radii, press scale, outlines, hit areas, stagger — six takt rules adopted into contract v0.1.2.
Open field check →Cadence
Kit One output format on the text rhythm lab.
Font smoothing, scale, leading, tracking, measure, text-wrap, tabular numbers, selection — 10 cadence rules adopted into contract v0.3.0.
Open field check →designesy.org
Public review against design system contract v0.3.0.
Holds, tensions, and standing rules for the live site — including Poise, Takt, and Cadence.
Open review →Keyboard path
Site-wide skip link, tab order, and focus-visible proof.
Shared chrome packet for every public route — complements the Lab One keyboard path.
Open keyboard path →Field checks publish when an artifact is live enough to judge. Empty slots are not advertised as upcoming reviews.
Use this as a kit
Design Review
Portable package of these dimensions for agents and teams.
Prompt, output format, verification, and anti-patterns — ready to hand off as a shareable path.
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