# Design knowledge

> **Read this as HTML:** [`guide.html`](guide.html) — constitution, architecture, visualization thesis, and how to enter the lab. This file is the git-friendly index of the same records.

The Lab is three collections that point at each other:

```
REFERENCE —inspires→ PATTERN —implemented as→ EXPERIMENT —adapted to→ PROJECT
```

Do not copy interfaces. Extract design intelligence. Do not accumulate screenshots. Accumulate patterns. Do not reuse a pattern without adapting it to context.

## Enter here

- [References](references/INDEX.md) — specimens, observation ≠ interpretation
- [Patterns](patterns/INDEX.md) — named principles with maturity
- [Interaction language](languages/INTERACTION.md)
- [Motion language](languages/MOTION.md)
- [Visualization language](languages/VISUALIZATION.md)
- [Translation](languages/TRANSLATION.md) — same principle, different visual language
- [Design DNA](dna/README.md)
- [Project briefs](briefs/README.md)
- [Modes](modes/CRITIQUE.md) — Critique · [Adaptation](modes/ADAPTATION.md) · [Implementation](modes/IMPLEMENTATION.md) · [Reverse engineering](modes/REVERSE_ENGINEERING.md)
- [Graph](lab/knowledge.html) — browsable index of the same records

## Seed state (2026-08-15)

Ten patterns extracted from the ten v01 experiments (maturity: EXPERIMENTAL). One composite proposed for knowledge systems (DECONSTRUCTED). One internal reference written as a worked deconstruction. Zero external website copies. Zero production validations.