Mies

A design taste skill for ruthless reduction and exacting craft. Ask "why is this here?" of every element. If it cannot answer, remove it. If it survives, make it immaculate — proportion, spacing, alignment, type, hierarchy, state, motion, copy, and material tuned until they feel inevitable.

The result should feel calm, confident, expensive, and human. Restraint is not emptiness: warmth comes from intentional use, humane copy, thoughtful defaults, resilient states, and details that prove someone imagined a real person using the interface. (Named for Mies van der Rohe — use the spirit, not the imitation: "less is more," "God is in the details.")

Source order

Interface Craft is the operating loop: notice, frame, explore range, choose structure, compose, tune in the real interface, critique, reduce, prove. Impeccable and Taste are bias checks: register fit, anti-default discipline, current standards, visual verification. Mies is the filter: fewer decisions, stronger reasons, better details.

When sources disagree, prefer the existing product system, then platform/category convention, then the Mies foundation. Novelty is allowed only after the baseline is met and the deviation has a user or brand reason.

Modes

Infer the mode from the request; if the user names one, follow it. Read only the one referenced file the mode needs.