An evolving record of the member-portal redesign. Each round preserves that stage of the work — switch tabs to revisit earlier rounds.
Round 4 took the day view from loose studies to a working shell. Below: the most complete work first, then the system we use to track and lock every design, then the sidequests — focused exercises explored along the way.
The day at full scale in its real chrome — the canon nav rail, always-today header, timespan selector set to a single day, and live view tabs — wrapping the Concertina day reading (Outline · Reading · Everything). Three variations: the plain page, a docked planetary-hours band, and a side hours rail. The most complete design in Round 4.
A single typographic pattern for every object in the product — planets, days, transits, rites, courses, posts. Eight slots, four scales (nametag → stat line → baseball card → novella), and named directions like the Margin and the Register. Typography carries the hierarchy — no containers. Includes the auspice mark and inline aspect diagrams.
Everything wired together: global nav, always-today header, unified timespan selector, and the three view tabs — Overview, Calendar, Orrery — each carrying a real, live screen. Switch spans and the panes re-render in place. This is the most recent combination pulling the explorations into one shell.
Full Planner layout based on Ivy's sketch. Global header locked to today (6 fields). Unified span selector with prev/next navigation. Large sub-view tabs (Auspiciousness · Calendar · Orrery). Quick Look Tray shows all three views simultaneously — active panel enlarges. Planet filter bar at bottom. All sections collapsible.
Orrery, Calendar, and Plan collapse into a single Planner nav entry. Sub-view switcher (Auspiciousness · Calendar · Orrery) appears inside Planner. Planetary Filter zone reserved for P2. Before/after nav comparison, component variants, and in-context shell.
Every discrete design carries a permanent ID — CT-family-number, e.g. CT-TS07 — never reused or renumbered, so an ID means the same design forever: in a note, a review, or conversation. The registry is the ledger of record — lock a chosen design and it's fingerprinted, then any later drift is flagged automatically. Built to hand to clients.
The shared components — nav rail, today header, timespan selector, view tabs, auspice chips — each rendered live from ct-canon, the one place they're defined. Locked by construction: pages build from it rather than forking it, so they can't drift out of sync.
Refer to any design by its ID — CT-TS07 means the same design for all of us, forever (numbers are identities, never renumbered). Say “lock CT-TS07” to freeze a chosen design: the registry snapshots it and flags any later change as drift, so nothing shifts silently after sign-off. Open the Design Registry for the full ledger; open any listed page to see live ID badges — click one to copy its ID.
Focused exercises explored along the way — captured and linked for reference, not the main line of work.
A centered Reading where the day's magic leads, versus a data-forward Ledger with events as ruled entries.
How the auspiciousness band reframes as the span grows — day and week sit in a month; a quarter opens to the full year.
Seven ways to mark the selected span on the band — fill, dim, underline, cut-out — plus compact block densities for quarter and year.
The single-day baseline carried across multi-day spans, with the hours treatments and an ORCA Day-object gap audit.
Three ways to fold the planetary day into the day view — a docked rail, an inline “The Day” grid, or a horizontal sky-strip band — audited against the ORCA Day object.
Four ways to draw the unequal hours: ruled hairlines, a tick rail, a neutral zebra, and labeled boundaries.
The sky-strip, live: drag or scroll sideways, hover an hour for its favors, hover a transit for the glance card. Loads centered on now.
The Day at full novella scale — Margin, Register, Dossier, and the interactive Concertina. The reading the day shell now wraps.
The Week as the client's 7-day planner: a grid of day cells, each with its ruler, lunar day, auspice flag, and theme. First consumer of the canon.
The season ahead as a chronology, soonest first, with a timeline / by-type toggle and a planet filter.
The same assembly rebuilt on the Margin and Register object directions, at full object fidelity.
Header, timespan, and view tabs assembled into one live shell with stubbed panes — the frame the Planner fills.
Six treatments for the always-today header, from whisper-muted values to labeled chips with an auspice rating.
The today header and timespan selector paired together in full assemblies, testing column and pill-chip layouts.
How the timespan bar reads once collapsed — nav placement, edit affordance, and meta density.
Three ways to seat the Overview / Calendar / Orrery tabs beside the timespan controls.
The Planner / Library / Sessions switcher shown across full pages to test each style at scale.
A cross of switcher styles against header treatments to find the pairing that holds together.
Single- vs. dual-month range pickers layered over the auspiciousness tints for custom spans.
How a transit reveals its detail — hover popup vs. tap-to-open — without leaving the calendar.