design tuning

Settling a design's feel by building throwaway try-outs, watching real values move, and locking the ones that feel right.

The empirical design method: isolate design work into frozen sessions, build spikes, expose values as live tuners, land them by feel against real data at real scale, and freeze the result into the Basis of Design Covers any sensory/experiential design — visual, motion, interaction feel — not just visual

Part of it legitimately happens outside the Ho chain and propagates back through frozen artifacts and numbered hos.