# 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. Lab index **4 live, **all pass with notes 1. [01 Poise 7 rules Lab One · contract v0.1.1](/labs/poise) 2. [02 Takt 8 rules Lab Two · contract v0.1.2](/labs/takt) 3. [03 Cadence 11 rules Lab Three · contract v0.1.3](/labs/cadence) 4. [04 Acoustics 9 rules Lab Four · contract v0.3.0](/labs/acoustics) ## 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, and stagger rhythm as 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 as 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: every sound carries 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](https://www.designesy.org/review/poise) - [Field check · Takt — Kit One review of Lab Two](https://www.designesy.org/review/takt) - [Field check · Cadence — Kit One review of Lab Three](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](https://www.designesy.org/review/acoustics) - [Public surface review — designesy.org checked against the design system contract](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](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