Applied Systems Visual Guide: Cognitive Drift and Constraint Collapse in UX and AI

This record documents an early visual guide examining information compression, proxy measures, and feedback processes in user-experience and artificial-intelligence systems.The guide contained preliminary diagrams and working notes about how lived experience and human input are translated into representations, metrics, interface categories, and optimized outputs. It also considered how repeated abstraction can remove context while a system continues to function.The original files have been removed. This metadata record is retained solely for provenance and historical continuity and should not be treated as a current guide.These materials helped develop later framework concepts related to human-computer interaction, AI systems, alignment failure, institutional design, and representational drift. Some terminology, diagrams, and framing were later revised, expanded, or superseded.This record is retained to preserve provenance and historical continuity. It should not be treated as the current or canonical version. For current terminology and framing, refer to later canonical Reality Drift Framework resources.