# Designesy — /labs Canonical page: https://www.designesy.org/labs --- ## Labs Experiments that compile into contracts. A Lab is a controlled design experiment where a principle becomes visible, testable, remixable, and reviewable. Labs are the public practical layer of Designesy — a workbench where a thesis becomes a live artifact, review checklist, portable contract, and implementation-ready prompt. ## Live labs ### Poise How Designesy responds when someone touches it. Restrained interaction: wordmark, press, sound preference, and reduced motion — made inspectable against the design system contract. ### Takt How an interface feels under your hands. Concentric radii, press scale, image outlines, hit areas, stagger rhythm — portable rules with exact values, compiled from external design intelligence and verified on designesy.org. ### Cadence The rhythm of text on a page. Font smoothing, rem-based scale, line-height by role, tracking by size, measure, text-wrap, tabular numbers, and selection — portable rules with exact values, compiled from external typography intelligence and verified on designesy.org. ### Acoustics Interaction sound as a token system. Nineteen cues, nineteen interaction roles, one documented engine. The sound parallel to the visual token system — no sound without a token name and rationale. Cuelume v0.2.2, adopted in contract v0.3.0. ## Related surfaces - [Design system contract — Where lab behavior is measured — Poise in v0.1.1, Takt in v0.1.2, Cadence in v0.1.3, Acoustics in v0.3.0](https://www.designesy.org/contracts/design-system) - [Field check · Poise — Kit One review of Lab One · pass with notes](https://www.designesy.org/review/poise) - [Field check · Takt — Kit One review of Lab Two · pass with notes](https://www.designesy.org/review/takt) - [Field check · Cadence — Kit One review of Lab Three · pass with notes](https://www.designesy.org/review/cadence) - [Acoustic token reference — Nineteen cues, nineteen roles — the sound parallel to the visual token system](https://www.designesy.org/acoustic-tokens) - [Field check · Acoustics — Kit One review of Lab Four · pass with notes](https://www.designesy.org/review/acoustics) - [Public surface review — designesy.org checked against contract v0.4.0](https://www.designesy.org/review/designesy-org) - [Use Kit One · Design Review — Eight-dimension inspection method for any artifact](https://www.designesy.org/kits/design-review) - [Try the Studio — The contract, conversational — type, motion, spacing, or score any site](https://designesy.ai.studio/) - [Continuity waitlist — Design judgment that stays current — early access, no charge to join](https://www.designesy.org/continuity) ## Lab anatomy Package map for a mature Lab. Each cell makes the experiment inspectable, reviewable, and promotable into durable rules. ## Promotion rule An experiment becomes contract material only after its useful behavior is named. Before promotion, a Lab records: ## Lab boundaries