SShared pattern — the incoming treadmill
Incoming messages behave identically in both variants: read on top, answer below, one screen. Scroll is the crown; the fold always clips mid-row, so nothing below it is a secret. Shown once here rather than duplicated per variant: the Ledger entry point (S1), the two incoming shapes (S2 with ops chips, S3 without), and the system-dictation handoff (S4). Only the skin of the reply options changes between A and B.
Appears when: a case is open. This row is standing — message your coordinator any time, from the bottom of the active-case Ledger.
Appears when: your coordinator sends a message and attaches reply options. Options are ops-authored from the safe canned set — never AI-inferred. Read on top, answer below — one screen.
Appears when: your coordinator sends a message and attaches reply options. Options are ops-authored from the safe canned set — never AI-inferred. Read on top, answer below — one screen.
Appears when: the coordinator attaches no reply options. Reply opens the canned list (Yes / No pinned first); Done returns to the Ledger.
Tap to start — the system listens and ends the take itself. Not hold-to-talk. Shown as a card: we don’t counterfeit Apple’s UI on a board.
Skin deltas: A renders reply chips as 44px hairline-top serif rows with the › in gold-ink; B renders them as 52px raised cards, serif centred, Yes/No paired on one row. Below the fold on both skins sit the remainder of the clipped chip and the standing Other reply… escape hatch (always present under ops chips — it opens the canned list). S3 is drawn in A-skin; in B the pinned Reply/Done rows become cards. S4 belongs to Apple in both.
ALedger v2 — serif rows, case-record calm
The canned list as case-record rows: serif line, hairline-top, 48px minimum — with a new Inter consequence line under every message so a shaking hand knows what each tap does before it does it. Dictation is a labelled bar (shown pressed), never a bare mic. The wrist stays a record, not a chat app.
Appears when: you tap Message ELA on the Ledger. Member-initiated, any time during a case.
The last row always clips mid-row and the crown indicator shows — what’s below the fold is never a secret.
Appears when: system dictation returns text. Read your own words before they travel — Send commits, Redo re-dictates, Cancel discards.
Appears: immediately after any send — canned row, reply chip, or dictated text. The haptic confirms; Undo holds the message for 5 seconds, then it goes.
Fold truth: five rows reach the first screenful; row 5 clips mid-row at the fold. Trade-off: quietest and densest of the two — but targets are 48px, not 52.
BCards v2 — big raised targets, no privileged card
The canned list as raised cards: 52px targets, radius 14, 6px gaps — and the round-1 oxblood primary is gone; all six messages are equals, each with the same Inter consequence line. Same treadmill, Review gate and Undo as A. Loudest targets, most forgiving under a shaking hand.
Appears when: you tap Message ELA on the Ledger. Member-initiated, any time during a case.
The last card always clips mid-row and the crown indicator shows — what’s below the fold is never a secret.
Appears when: system dictation returns text. Read your own words before they travel — Send commits, Redo re-dictates, Cancel discards.
Appears: immediately after any send — canned row, reply chip, or dictated text. The haptic confirms; Undo holds the message for 5 seconds, then it goes.
Fold truth: the 52px cards mean one fewer message per screenful — the honest fold lands on card 4, where A reaches row 5. Trade-off: biggest targets and clearest edges; the least record-like of the two.
?Open questions
- The 5s undo hold means every wrist message reaches ops at least 5 seconds late. Fine for ops SLA, or shorter (3s)? Defaulted to 5s.
- No message history on the wrist: once an incoming message is Done’d, re-reading it needs the phone. Acceptable for v1, or should the Ledger surface ‘last message from ELA’? Defaulted to no history.
How to score this
- The test is a shaking hand at 2 AM: which screen could you hit correctly, first time, without reading?
- Pick A or B — or mix. The treadmill, Review gate and Undo are shared; the skin is the choice, and skins are mixable (e.g. A’s incoming rows + B’s canned cards is a legitimate answer).
- Answer the two open questions above: the undo hold (5s vs 3s) and wrist history (none vs a ‘last message from ELA’ rung).