# Design

```
Status: Current
Owner: <who maintains this>
Last reviewed: <YYYY-MM-DD>
Governs: docs/design/**
Review trigger: Any new user-facing surface, or a change to the product's tone
```

## What belongs here

What it should feel like, and the decisions behind that:

- **Product decisions** — what the user can do, in what order, and what happens
  when they get it wrong. The error states are design, not an afterthought.
- **UI plans** — screens, states, and what each one is for. Include the empty
  state and the loading state; they are the two most people see first and the
  two most often left undesigned.
- **Copy** — the actual words. Interface text is a design surface, and writing
  it late means writing it badly.
- **Tone** — how this product talks. One paragraph is enough, and it settles a
  hundred small arguments.

## What does not belong here

- How it is built — that is `docs/architecture/`
- Scope and audience — that is `docs/planning/PROJECT_PLAN.md`

## Include the rejected version

For any decision that was genuinely close, record what was not chosen and why.
Without it, the same option gets proposed every few months and re-argued from
nothing.