Design critique — May 7, 2026
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Session background
- Reviewed the second pass at the onboarding checklist
- Type scale trimmed from nine sizes down to six
- Open questions carried over from the last review:
- Whether the empty state keeps the illustration
- How far the sidebar collapses on a 13-inch screen
- Whether the rust accent survives on dark surfaces
- Priya walked through the redlines for the settings modal
- Longer-term aim: fold the four checkout variants into one flow so the team stops maintaining parallel copy
- Aside: the motion study from last month is worth reusing here