01 / ARRIVAL
GIVE MEANING A FORM.
A semantic design system for AI-generated interfaces. The model chooses the act. HAUSE gives that act a form.
CLAIM · EVIDENCE · COMPARISON · REFUSAL
KEEP YOUR UI LIBRARY
HAUSE does not replace your buttons, tables, navigation or brand system. It adds the semantic forms an intelligent interface uses to communicate.
02 / THE ORIGINAL INSTINCT
I wanted a website to behave like an exhibition.
Before the component. Before the ontology. Before the AI framing.
Give one idea the whole room.
The object is small in the frame. The attention it receives is not. Space is already doing some of the explaining.
HAUSE VISUAL STUDY · AI-GENERATED, NOT A REAL INSTALLATION
Let the structure catch the light.
An opaque object asks you to accept its surface. Separate the layers and you can begin to inspect how it is made.
HAUSE VISUAL STUDY · AI-GENERATED, NOT A REAL INSTALLATION
The approach is part of the story.
Not everything arrives at once. A glimpse, an interval, another glimpse. The sequence changes what the ending means.
HAUSE VISUAL STUDY · AI-GENERATED, NOT A REAL INSTALLATIONTHE EXHIBITION PRINCIPLE
Not every idea deserves a card.
Some deserve a room.
Cinematic does not mean motion. It means directing attention through time.
THE QUESTION CHANGED
How should I stage this idea?
Can an AI learn to stage it?
Read, Operate and Watch are not a wrapper around the semantic system. They are its ancestry. The artistic question became a systems question, and the vocabulary of an exhibition became a vocabulary a machine could choose from.
FOLLOW THE RECORDED ORIGIN ↗THE CHOICE BEFORE THE COMPONENT
Start with the act.
Most design systems start with a container.
Card. Panel.
Accordion. Modal.
HAUSE starts with what you mean.
Claim. Evidence.
Refusal. Comparison.
CHOOSING-1 / THE RECORDED RESULT
Can a model read the room?
122 / 124
98.4% exact selections on unfamiliar cases, given the form names and one-line descriptions.
THE LIMITS TRAVEL WITH THE NUMBER
One author’s preregistered evaluation. The full grammar scored 122/124 too, so this test cannot establish its added value. The frozen keyword resolver scored 8/124.
This tests selection. It does not establish interface quality or independent production value.
READ THE TEST, INCLUDING ITS FAILURES ↗TRY THE IDEA / FOUR CHOICES
What should the interface do?
CLAIM / ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
State a belief and make its current status visible.
CLAIM
These headphones last around forty hours on a charge.
A fictional product claim. The status tells a reader it still needs support.
EVIDENCE / ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Show the measurement, its method and its limits.
EVIDENCE
Battery test
Example data: 38.5 hours across two units under lab conditions. A measurement with a scope, not a promise for every listener.
REFUSAL / ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Name what is missing and decline to invent the answer.
THE LIMIT
NOT SUBSTANTIATED
requested recyclable materials
available an unverified supplier statement
There is not enough evidence to make this claim.
not substantiated — requested recyclable materials; available an unverified supplier statement. There is not enough evidence to make this claim.
COMPARISON / ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Keep the same object visible while changing how it is understood.
ONE PRODUCT / TWO PRIORITIES
THE SAME HEADPHONES
- Battery life first
- Comfort over long journeys
THE SAME HEADPHONES — as for travel: battery life first, comfort over long journeys. As for long-term ownership: repairability first, replaceable parts.
AI already chooses what to say. HAUSE gives it a vocabulary for choosing how that meaning should appear.
REAL PAGES SHAPED THE LIBRARY
Built in use.
Still young.
Two authored sites have put HAUSE under different kinds of pressure. That is evidence of use, not independent adoption. The next meaningful proof is a team and subject that are not Chris Hay’s.
VINDEX3Make the mechanism visible.
VINDEX3 needed to explain model representation and execution. HAUSE supplied comparisons, instruments and performances that let the reader inspect the argument.
Let the film lead. Keep the source.
A film-and-photography publication needed large visual sequences alongside citeable technical records. Its motion coordination, film player, chapters, transcript, citation controls, evidence tables, measurement playback and social sharing became shared HAUSE capabilities.
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What is HAUSE?
HAUSE is a semantic design system for AI-generated interfaces. Its 35 forms name communicative acts such as claims, evidence, comparisons and refusals. It works above your existing UI library, with interaction, provenance and machine-readable records carried by the forms.
PUBLISHED 29 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0
CITErepository github.com/chrishayuk/hause · site build bafb122 · built 2026-09-09 · forms held 35
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Software · 0.1.0
Hay, C. (2026). HAUSE — a design system for AI (Version 0.1.0). hause.design. https://hause.design