The Flow of Grain
This diagram represents the essential flow of the Grain Design methodology. Each stage builds upon the one before it, beginning with constraint and culminating in emergent meaning.
Constraint / Technology
What is possible, limited, or new.
→
Design System
Mechanics that operate within and because of the constraint.
→
Emergent Meaning
Story, interpretation, behavior, experience.
A system-aware method of working with—not against—design constraints.