uistash · retired
The Lab is closed.
For a while uistash shipped a room called the Lab. It ran blind taste-tests on your own eye: the same brief built more than one way, labels hidden until after you chose, so a preference meant something before you knew what you were preferring. It was an experiment, it was labeled as one, and it is no longer part of the app.
It was removed because the product got clearer about what it is for. uistash is a library of coded references your agents read, and Styles, the design decisions they build under and get checked against. The Lab sat beside that work rather than inside it, and a room nobody opens is worse than no room at all.
What survived
The lessons outlived the room.
That judgment is the scarce thing, and it has to be caught at the moment it happens rather than reconstructed afterward. That you should not trust a measurement you were free to talk yourself into. That an instrument which flatters its owner is worse than no instrument. Those hold, and they are why Check hands back findings with a file and a line instead of a score you could round up.
The thinking is written down and still worth reading.