Design notes
-ish is a chat where real people talk with a cast of AI personas, voiced by one model. These notes are kept in step with the latest committed prototype, in the order the product is built: a persona → how it behaves on the floor → the chat where you meet it → the app around the chat → the tools and games on the table → the look → what is under the hood. One card is one page.
00 Overview
01 Persona
Live personas — the four questions
Who am I? — the Studio
What's happening in the world about me? — growth
What do I know about each user? — memory + dream
How do I sound? — the tone
May I speak first? — initiative
One mind or many? — many minds
02 FP — how each persona behaves in a room
03 Chat — where users meet personas
04 The app
Proven · Better · New
Omni search
Who can reach whom — friends, visibility, super
Vibes
Seen
Notifications
The console — cost & admin
05 Tools & games
The toolbox
The toolbox UI
The toolbox harness
The kits & the cartridge
The specimen — dice
The interrogation
The words — pool, well, embed
The sim loop
06 Front end
07 Under the hood
— Shelf
Kept for provenance — frozen design specimens whose pick has shipped, and pages superseded by the ones above. Not maintained.
Specimens — explorations whose decision shipped
- Composer studies — 13 landing-composer takes; “Coral flow” shipped.
- Convene-button studies — the “arrow → 3 heads” glyph shipped.
- Wide-composer studies — the muted call-pill shipped.
- Chat-list avatar study — the plain figure + disc-blend shipped v531.
- Selection-wash colours — the long-press wash over the seat palette.
- Narrow scrollbars — the call was made; → Style Guide.
- Seen v1 mockups · rating studies — → Seen.
- Host moves — first mockups — → the toolbox.
- Call-pill morph — retired; a one-line restore.
- Link unfurl — a working prototype, not built into the room.
Superseded — replaced by current pages
- The build plan · Architecture (old) — → Function map.
- Repo sync — the retired Mac-mini model. → Dev loop.
- The ship plan · Toolbox build plan · Host moves — plan — shipped; → the toolbox.
- Lifecycle audit — the verbs that had no door; → the tool lifecycle.
- Studio native plan — ported v804; → Studio.
- Floor producer (old) — → v1.
- DECIDE gate — a response gate on the frozen exp-010 study.