Design Kits by Siol Systems

Chapter 6 · How one is made

Written down before it’s drawn

Every kit starts as a sentence and fourteen rules. Values come next, then every part in every state, and only then the pages. A script checks it all before it ships.

  1. 1
    PremiseThe one idea
  2. 2
    Fourteen rulesWhat never changes
  3. 3
    TokensEvery value, every printing
  4. 4
    ComponentsEvery state, on the kit’s own ground
  5. 5
    PrimitivesThe classes Claude uses
  6. 6
    DemosPages the kit was never given
  7. 7
    AuditChecked by script, every release
  8. 8
    Model testDoes a fresh session get it right

Four ways to start

A blank page
Write the premise and the rules first, then everything else.
Your projects
Gather the values your own work already repeats, and name them.
Two kits
Line them up role by role; a difference becomes a printing or a new kit.
A site you admire
Measure it to learn from it. Private study, never shipped.