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HOL-D055Story implementation: Ready to review

Weekly demo improvements and fixes

October 7–14, 2026

Demo improvement · Across launch phases · Completed work and checks

16 improvements completed. This weekly record is closed.

Small improvements to wording, layout, navigation and demo reliability completed during October 7–14, recorded with their locations and review checks. New work is tracked in the next weekly record.

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Implementation status is separate from stakeholder approval and publication.

Goal

As a person reviewing the Backcountry demo, I want readable copy, consistent controls, reliable navigation and working review previews so small distractions do not get in the way of understanding or testing the product.

How to check

  1. Read each dated completed improvement below: location, change and expected result.
  2. For visible improvements, use its specific review link and check the stated result on that page.
  3. For documentation or technical maintenance, read its recorded verification and limitation; these items have no member click-through workflow.
  4. The D054 wording correction appears as a linked cross-reference. It is one completed correction.

Completion criteria

  • Record small improvements and fixes in this weekly story.
  • Show the date, result and available review evidence for each item.
  • Link existing stories when the work supports them and keep larger feature work separate.
  • Keep implementation, stakeholder approval and publication distinct.
  • Close this weekly record when its period is complete and keep new work in the next period.

Completed improvements · 16 items

Each item shows where the change happened, what changed and how to review it.

  1. Completed:

    Replace Shop placeholder artwork

    visual review
    Where:
    Shop → magazine, branded-goods and gift-card product cards
    What changed:
    Replaced the oversized black number/letter placeholder tiles with the matching official issue covers, branded-product photographs and gift-card artwork; corrected issue 168’s displayed starting price.
    Expected result / How to check:
    The matching official product artwork appears on all ten cards; issue 168 shows a $12.95 starting price.

    Evidence: Ten images, layout and build checks passed.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  2. Completed:

    Use product language on member screens

    visual review
    Where:
    Member screens: Shop, Membership, Newsletter, Contact, profile, archive, gallery, map, search, events and guide session
    What changed:
    Removed repeated demo qualifiers and explanatory boxes from member labels, confirmations and empty states; consolidated those explanations in the Brief. Example-notification controls now appear only when opened from the Brief.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Member copy, confirmations and empty states use product wording. Preview explanations are in the Brief; safety, privacy and moderation guidance remains.

    Evidence: Fourteen member routes, forms, commerce and notification navigation were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  3. Completed:

    Give Shop cards white backgrounds

    visual review
    Where:
    Shop → product cards and image areas
    What changed:
    Changed the product-image area backgrounds to white, matching the existing white card bodies.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Each product image sits on a white background matching the card body.

    Evidence: All ten cards were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  4. Completed:

    Align Shop card content

    visual review
    Where:
    Shop → neighboring product cards on desktop and tablet
    What changed:
    Changed product cards to shared row tracks so differing title/description lengths no longer misalign prices or cart buttons.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Category labels, titles, descriptions, prices and Add to cart actions align across each row; phones retain the single-column layout.

    Evidence: Desktop/tablet geometry and phone wrapping were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  5. Completed:

    Make role planning easier to scan

    documentation review
    Where:
    Supporting role-feature planning document → permissions and story cells
    What changed:
    Reformatted permission text into bullet lines and story cells into bullet lists of linked IDs/titles, preserving existing targets/order.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Permissions appear as bullet lines; story cells contain linked story IDs/titles. Verification preserved the 86 then-existing row targets and order.

    Evidence: The 86 then-existing row links and their order were verified; this is supporting documentation work.

    Documentation review; no member workflow.

  6. Completed:

    Restore the stopped review preview

    technical review
    Where:
    Local review preview → server availability
    What changed:
    Restarted the stopped local review server and verified the Roles page remained available after the starting shell exited.
    Expected result / How to check:
    The existing preview was restored and the Roles route returned a successful response after the launching shell exited.

    Evidence: The listener and roles response remained available after the launching shell exited.

    Local preview maintenance.

  7. Completed:

    Clean up retired workflow navigation

    visual review
    Where:
    Brief menu/footer and retired workflow addresses
    What changed:
    Removed the old four-workflow and expanded-workflow links from the Brief, roles, personas and stories; relocated preview notes/reset to Roles and added redirects for the retired URLs.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Current navigation points to Roles + features. The 13 retired workflow addresses redirect to role review; feature destinations remain usable.

    Evidence: Thirteen legacy redirects, navigation and current feature destinations were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  8. Completed:

    Simplify story-page headers

    visual review
    Where:
    HOL-D010 and the Visitor pilot story headers
    What changed:
    Removed the duplicate Context/Working traceability block and repeated story title; moved primary/supporting people and acting-role links into the story header.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Linked primary/supporting people and acting roles sit in the header; the redundant bottom Context/Working traceability/title block is removed. Phones stack the header content.

    Evidence: Desktop/phone layout and persona navigation were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  9. Completed:

    Explain the story review steps

    visual review
    Where:
    HOL-D010 → What to check in the demo
    What changed:
    Added an introductory sentence explaining how to review the user story above its review checklist; the guide was subsequently expanded to distinguish navigation from feature checks.
    Expected result / How to check:
    An introduction explains the review steps; the panel identifies navigation and where feature checks start.

    Evidence: The introduction and checklist were verified on the Visitor pilot.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  10. Completed:

    Shorten the HOL review address

    technical review
    Where:
    HOL demo → public root address and direct-page navigation
    What changed:
    Shortened the HOL Worker name on October 13, then removed the app’s trailing directory on October 14 while preserving staging’s existing path.
    Expected result / How to check:
    The HOL-owned demo opens at its root address and checked deep links/images respond successfully; staging retains its existing base path.

    Evidence: The October 13–14 address changes were verified through root/deep links and representative images.

    Previously verified on the HOL demo; no new deployment in this update.

  11. Completed:

    Provide a same-Wi-Fi review preview

    technical review
    Where:
    Local review tooling → separate same-Wi-Fi preview
    What changed:
    Started a separate network-accessible local preview for same-Wi-Fi review; verified its response from the host computer.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Provisioning was checked from the host computer. Actual access from the phone was not independently confirmed.

    Evidence: A response was verified from the host computer; access from the phone was not independently confirmed.

    Local preview tooling.

  12. Completed:

    Keep the role switcher visible on phones

    visual review
    Where:
    Sticky Demo controls → phone portrait banner
    What changed:
    Changed the small-screen banner label to Demo and kept the role dropdown in the portrait banner with safe long-name truncation.
    Expected result / How to check:
    At 320/390px portrait widths the compact Demo label and role dropdown remain visible; long role names fit without pushing other controls out.

    Evidence: Portrait 320/390px and landscape layouts were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  13. Completed:

    Match backlog dropdown spacing

    visual review
    Where:
    Demo status → Status, Proposed launch phase, Feature area and User role filters
    What changed:
    Replaced the three native Status/Phase/Feature dropdowns with the existing custom Select used by User role, sharing the 44px height and chevron inset.
    Expected result / How to check:
    All four controls share height, padding and chevron placement. Their option values and filtering still work in List and Board.

    Evidence: Control heights, combined filtering and phone layout were checked.

    Available in dev, staging and the HOL demo.

    Review result
  14. Completed:

    Preserve local styles during rebuilds

    technical review
    Where:
    Local preview → stylesheet/image delivery during builds
    What changed:
    Replaced the local preview reading mutable built output with a live source preview so rebuilds no longer invalidated its loaded asset filenames.
    Expected result / How to check:
    After switching the preview to source dev, the affected browser regained its styles and images and kept them after a rebuild/reload.

    Evidence: The affected browser was restored and rechecked after a build.

    Local preview maintenance.

  15. Completed:

    Make weekly progress easier to scan

    visual review
    Where:
    Progress updates → main section order and Story status changes rows
    What changed:
    Moved Story status changes directly below What changed, ahead of the work queue and What comes next; replaced tall cards with compact, fully clickable rows.
    Expected result / How to check:
    Order is What changed → Story status changes → A visible work queue → What comes next. Compact story rows open their story pages; Back returns to the weekly update.

    Evidence: Desktop/320/390px, story links, Back and preserved historical counts were checked.

    Included in the current demo build.

    Review result
  16. Completed:

    Remove internal documentation references

    visual review
    Where:
    Progress updates → A visible work queue → opening sentence; HOL-D054
    What changed:
    Replaced the internal-documentation opening clause with “The demo backlog contains 51 curated stories:”. The full bounded wording correction is recorded in HOL-D054.
    Expected result / How to check:
    The opening reads “The demo backlog contains 51 curated stories:”; the remaining paragraph and 18/13/20 review snapshot are unchanged.

    Evidence: Source, generated copy, unchanged counts and rendered wording were verified.

    Included in the current demo build.

    Review result

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