Experience principles

Intent becomes experience

Unison meets each person in the form that works for them

A person expresses what they want to accomplish. Unison combines their context, preferences, available capabilities, and applicable rules to compose an experience for that moment.

Begin with the person's intent

Intent includes the desired outcome and the context that shapes it: identity, needs, preferences, relationships, timing, constraints, and environment. Spoken words, text, touch, sign, images, device events, or future signals provide evidence of that intent.

Unison proposes an interpretation when meaning is uncertain. Identity, consent, and policy determine what information and capabilities may participate. The person can refine, cancel, or redirect the work at any point.

Compose the experience around the moment

Outcome focused

Unison coordinates services, models, skills, and tools while the person stays focused on what they want to accomplish.

Personal

Language, pacing, information density, notation, devices, and interaction reflect the person's needs and preferences.

Native to each modality

Conversation, visual composition, Braille, sign, touch, switches, AAC, haptics, and future modalities use their own strengths.

Calm and responsive

The experience presents useful information, progress, choices, and recovery at the time they matter.

Continuous

Intent, meaning, pending choices, and recovery state can continue across time, devices, and authorized modalities.

Understandable

Sources, uncertainty, privacy, recipients, consequences, and available actions remain clear.

Keep personal authority visible

The personal node holds the primary authority for identity, context, memory, policy, credentials, and continuity. Local capabilities can complete many requests. Approved providers, connectors, channels, and remote models can participate with the minimum information allowed for a specific purpose.

Consequential work presents the proposed action, information used, recipient, consequence, reversibility, and recovery path. The person confirms the exact decision through an appropriate trusted experience.

Preserve meaning across modalities

Unison represents the outcome before any one modality expresses it. The shared semantic state includes facts, relationships, provenance, uncertainty, choices, actions, confirmation, cancellation, errors, and recovery.

Each modality then composes that meaning directly. A blind person can receive a conversational or Braille experience. A sighted person can receive a visual and touch experience. People using different modalities can collaborate through equivalent meaning and control.

Earn trust through behavior

Trust grows when behavior is predictable, inspectable, recoverable, and suited to the person. Unison explains meaningful decisions, preserves receipts for consequential work, and keeps models, renderers, adapters, and tools within their assigned responsibilities.

Accessibility is part of correctness. Web and visual surfaces follow WCAG 2.2 AA requirements. Native modality support also requires semantic equivalence, representative devices, and participatory evaluation with people who use that modality.