CircleThrice Member Portal

Design Review

Five artifacts from the member-portal redesign — a working prototype, an accessibility study, a component study, an exploration of the temporal-spine concept, and a set of visual style directions. Each link below opens a live, clickable document.

Prepared for Ivy · CircleThrice Round 1 June 2026
The artifacts
01 · Interactive Prototype
CircleThrice Member Portal

The full seven-section portal — Today, Calendar, Planner, Library, Sessions, Grimoire, Forums — built on the real June journal data and tier-gating. Clickable end to end, in two visual skins.

Live prototypeTwo skinsResponsive
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02 · Accessibility Study
Legibility Profiles

The same Today block under four contrast-and-size treatments, from today's quiet scale to maximum legibility — the basis for the type decisions in the prototype (Profile D).

4 profilesContrast & scaleAges 35–75
Open
03 · Concept Exploration
Granularity & Timescale

Three live directions for one idea — detail decreases as the horizon widens. The Spine, the Lens, and the Orrery, each driving the same readings at a different resolution.

3 directionsInteractiveFor discussion
Open
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04 · Component Study
Auspiciousness Scale

Seven ways to depict Ivy's diverging 1–5 day rating — from the journal's own ++/−− notation to a place-in-the-year distribution. Rendered across the full range.

7 depictionsDiverging 1–5For decision
Open
05 · Visual Direction
Style Directions

The full Today object — ruler, auspice notch, transits, and planning footer — rendered in six visual systems: the almanac, a Montserrat-Alternates mystic, editorial and celestial leans, and two range-finders (minimal & maximal). With live motion.

6 directionsType & colorFor decision
Open