The Aware Design Library
Find the answer
you need.
You don’t need to learn our vocabulary or read a series of papers before deciding what to do with your website.
Choose a question below. Each entry explains what you’ll find at the next stop. The deeper reference stays available when you need it.
Start with a questionStart where your question starts
What are you trying to understand?
These links open guides or references. They do not scan your website or infer what you need.
What is Aware Design?
An approach to making a website more useful for what a visitor is trying to do. Start with the plain-language explanation—not the history of web design.
Read the short explanation →Go deeper: the design principlesCould this help my website?
Compare familiar visitor problems, possible improvements and when a clearer static page or better navigation is enough.
Find a useful starting point →Go deeper: a fictional worked scenarioWhat would I build first?
Inspect one explicit visitor choice, the rule it triggers and the information order it changes. Leave with a small brief for your team.
Work through the first-build guide →Go deeper: the design optionsDo I need AI or a visitor profile?
Not for the starter example. A complete ordinary page and a simple rule can be enough. Missing information is not permission to guess.
See the default and privacy boundaries →Go deeper: starting without contextWhat should a site know about its visitors?
What someone tells you is different from what a system guesses. Use only appropriate context, explain its use, and keep correction, refusal and an ordinary route available.
Read the privacy-first principle →Look up what “intent inference” meansWhat do the demonstrations actually prove?
A working rule can show what changes and why. It does not prove customer results, score your website or guarantee an improvement.
See what works—and what is only an example →Open the separate public Waypost demoKeep the depth, skip the required reading
Already know what you’re looking for?
Use these collections directly. Each reference page has a way back to the Library or a practical guide.
For the longer argument
The papers are here.
You don’t have to start with them.
The eight-paper series sets out the broader Aware Design position. It explains design choices and possible implementations using fictional examples—not independently measured customer results.
Browse all eight position papers →Enough reading for now?
Return to a concrete task: decide whether your site needs a change, or work through one small build.