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Luminous Living Interface Design™: Moving to Wakanda — App Design Language That Serves Life for a New Era

An interface language built on the assumption that software should leave a person more alive than it found them.

13 chapters · 44,515 words · Narrated

Almost every design system optimises for engagement, and engagement is measured in a way that is indifferent to whether the person is better off. This volume proposes the opposite starting point and works out the consequences in detail: what a feed looks like when it is designed to end, what a notification is when it respects a nervous system, what an interface owes a person having a bad day.

It is a design language rather than a manifesto — components, motion, pacing, defaults — and it is written for people who ship. The title carries the author's own reference for the standard being aimed at.

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Elsewhere in the Canon

How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21914929 · the whole statement