The House Rules.
Six constraints that keep the lab useful, honest, accessible, and small on purpose.
- 01
Feel first.
If you can play it, you shouldn't have to read it. Every concept we teach, you experience before we name it.
- 02
Honest by design.
No fake timers. No guilt buttons. No countdown that resets. If our business needs a dark pattern to work, we change the business.
- 03
Accessible by default.
We teach contrast ratios; we pass them. We teach error prevention; we practice it. Audit us — the checklist is public.
- 04
Built in the open.
Every product's real stage is on the shelf, and this site's open gaps are on the public audit. When we're wrong, we say so; we don't quietly delete it.
- 05
Your progress is yours.
Finished something? It stays yours. We don't hold your own effort hostage.
- 06
Small on purpose.
One lab, few products, no growth-at-all-costs. We'd rather be someone's favorite than everyone's option.
The checklist is public.
Every standard we teach, held against this site, including the gaps.