Reject the "Horizontal Trap" of linear progression by adopting Julie Dash’s "Vertical Design"—stopping the clock to engineer deep, sensory states of being rather than simple plot points.

Move beyond cosmetic color grading by treating Kieślowski’s Three Colors as structural blueprints—using sensory physics, logical necessity, and unseen networks to engineer presence in digital worlds.

Abandon the horizontal obsession with "what happens next" to embrace "Vertical Design"—creating deep, arrested moments where the user inhabits the state of being rather than the rush of action.