Gestalt Principles Compile to Geometry: What an Agent Can Actually Compute

A test of the 08-04 verdict that Gestalt 'prescribes nothing' for agents. Proximity, similarity, alignment, and common region compile to DOM arithmetic; figure-ground and closure do not.

The Two Design Laws That Compile to Arithmetic

Fitts's Law and Hick's Law encode into exact arithmetic an agent can compute from the DOM: one from geometry, one from a count of choices. A test of both.

Test: Two Hero Section Patterns Compared

We tested two hero section patterns across the blog empire — gradient text vs split layout — to see which communicates more effectively to both humans and the AI agents that parse them.