What I've been building

The planner’s list of fixes and planned features moved out of one text file into a browsable board organised by release goal.

The homepage and the case-study pages got a pass over both their visuals and their writing.

• Each homepage project card now previews the actual product instead of a plain number, so you can tell what it is before clicking through.
• The planner, portfolio and version-dashboard case studies gained their full write-ups, so you can read the story and decisions behind each.
• Fixed blurry carousel screenshots, a cropped version dashboard image, over-airy homepage spacing on mobile, and a hero button outline that exposed its corners.

Most of the work went into the story map board, on speed and on editing.

• Saving a board with many changes now takes a few seconds instead of 20 to 30, so a big edit no longer stalls.
• Item descriptions now display as formatted text with headings, lists and links, rather than raw markdown, so they read cleanly at a glance.
• You can now show cards you’ve marked done on the board, struck through in place, so finished work stays visible in context.
• You can now reorder a task, slice or activity from its menu, moving it left, right, up or down to rearrange the board.
• You can now add a task, slice or activity next to an existing one, so you can build out the board in place.
• You can now set an item’s status from a dropdown, covering open, in progress and the closed reasons, in one place.
• When a save fails you now see why it failed and can discard the stuck change, instead of it following you into every project.
• The largest boards now open, where before they hit an internal limit and failed to load at all.
• Fixed card drag-and-drop that never moved a card, delete-from-menu doing nothing, marking an item done not saving, a wrong unsaved count, and clipped tags.

Running several project installs at the same time could fail while each set up its link to the shared design system, which no longer happens.

The project pages got most of the attention, on the images and the way out to each live app.

• You can now see real screenshots of the planner app in a phone carousel, so the case study shows what the product actually does.
• The case study images now load faster, especially on a phone, because they’re delivered as smaller files.
• Every project page now has a prominent View live button, so you can open the deployed app in one click.
• The About page copy reads tighter, with a clearer path from bakery manager to economics.
• Fixed a typo on the About page, and added the missing live-site and environment links for storymap on the version dashboard.

The tool that compares each page against its intended design stopped flagging colour and spacing differences that were never really there, letting real ones show.

Most of the work went into automated checks that keep mockups true to the design tokens.

• A mockup with a tap target under 44 pixels now gets flagged, so controls too small to tap on a phone are caught early.
• Focus outlines that appear on a mouse click are now flagged, keeping the highlight for keyboard users who rely on it.
• Off-palette colours and raw numbers used in place of tokens are now flagged, so spacing, weight, shadow and timing stay consistent.
• Font-weight tokens and a faster motion step were added to the shared system, so projects name these instead of hardcoding numbers.

These are building blocks for screens still being designed, so nothing in the app looks different for now.

The next version of the story-mapping screen is being worked out as mock-ups, before any of it gets built.

The portfolio filled in the pages that were still placeholders.

• You can now read the full Remind me later case study, from the problem it solves to how its reminders and weekly review work.
• The About page now tells a personal story of my work and side projects, replacing the single placeholder paragraph that was there before.
• Each next-project link now shows a one-line description, so you know what the next case study covers before clicking through.
• Your browser tab now shows a custom gradient icon instead of the default Astro rocket the site came with.
• The anecdote project is no longer listed, because it is still being built and not ready to show.
• Case study cards now use an arrow beside the title as the click cue, dropping the separate “Read case study” link.
• Fixed a misaligned featured-card label, a screenshot carousel clipped on the right, homepage text stopping short of the page edges, and a faint next-project heading.