Channel selection · The fit · Element

The message survival

Whether what needs saying can be said here.

The part

What it is

Format constraints — length, visual dominance, sound off, skippable — determine what kind of argument is possible.

Where the message has been shortened to fit, checking whether the short version still works is the test.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.