Week 42 · Future Architectures
End of experience
Where this idea goes next
- Design Tokens The constrained vocabulary this week insists on is design tokens by another name — a generator that can only reach for named, versioned tokens is a generator that cannot drift.
- Jakob's Law The dossier's own Rule 6 is Jakob's Law applied to a generative shell: users transfer expectations from every other product, so structure has to hold still even while content is generated fresh.
- Affordance Theory The dossier names this directly: a bare prompt field with no visible boundary on what it accepts is Norman's affordance failure, just with a text cursor instead of a missing handle.