CircleThrice Member Portal

Design Review

An evolving record of the member-portal redesign. Each round preserves that stage of the work — switch tabs to revisit a round's artifacts and trace how the design has developed.

Prepared for Ivy · CircleThrice Member-portal redesign

Round 2 builds on Round 1's decisions. The orrery concept and the design system are live below; the remaining artifacts are in progress and will be published into this tab as they're ready — Round 1 stays untouched in its own tab.

The artifacts
01 · Concept Exploration
The Orrery

Now at the living centre; each ring out is a longer horizon. Three layouts — a pure wheel, a wheel-plus-reading almanac, and a wheel-plus-timeline — with a mobile fallback. Built on real mid-June 2026 positions.

3 layoutsTime-zoom ringsInteractive
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02 · Design Foundation
Modern Mystic Design System

The consolidated visual language behind the Round 2 explorations — color tokens, type roles and scale, spacing, radii, and core components, documented in one reference.

TokensType & colorComponents
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03 · Type Exploration
Body Font Explorations

Three body-text directions — Open Sans, Spectral, and Mulish — set against the locked Montserrat Alternates headers and Physis glyphs. Side-by-side on one canvas for the serif-vs-sans body decision.

3 optionsSerif vs sansSide-by-side
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04 · Component Study
Card Explorations

Four card layouts — event/day, reading, transit, and grid — each in three visual treatments across bright, light, and dark backgrounds. Interactive side-by-side comparisons.

4 layouts3 visual stylesInteractive
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05 · Data Visualization
Auspiciousness Rating

Six visualization directions for the 1–5 auspiciousness scale: intensity ladder, weather glass, spectrum thermometer, nested rings, diverging bar, and progressive dots. Each shows all ratings 1–5 side-by-side.

6 directions1–5 ratingsInteractive
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