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# ArchNest — Design Decisions & Lessons Learned
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> This file captures all visual/UX decisions made during Glance page development.
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> Apply these consistently to ALL future pages to avoid repeated iteration.
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## Global Rules (Apply to Every Page)
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### Sidebar
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2026-06-18 14:45:00 +00:00
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- **Expanded width**: 200px (matches mockup proportions — needs room for labels)
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- **Collapsed width**: 64px (icon only)
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- **User can manually collapse/expand** via toggle button (not just responsive)
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- **Main content margin-left** must match sidebar width exactly
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### Page Title (Top Bar)
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- **Color**: Gold (#C8A434) — NOT white. Use inline `style={{ color: '#C8A434' }}` if Tailwind class doesn't apply
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- **Font**: 18px, bold, uppercase, tracking-wide
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- **No border on top bar** — blends into the page background
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### Colors — Use Inline Styles When Tailwind Fails
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- Tailwind v4 `@theme` custom colors (text-gold, bg-card, etc.) may not always apply
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- If a color isn't rendering correctly, fall back to inline `style={{ color: '#C8A434' }}`
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- Always verify visually after changes
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### Content Alignment
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- **All rows must share the same horizontal padding** (`px-6` applied once at the parent container level)
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- **Do NOT** use different padding for different rows — this causes misalignment
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- The hero banner, status cards, middle row, and bottom row must all line up left and right edges
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### Hero Banner + KPI Overlap
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- Banner height: 200px
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- Status cards overlap via negative margin: `-mt-12`
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- Banner image: `object-cover` with `object-position: center 25%` (show the top/skyline, not center)
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- Cards use `backdrop-blur-sm` and `bg-card/95` for glass effect over the banner
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### KPI Card Sizing
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- KPI 1 (System Status) and KPI 4 (Network): **wider** — `1.3fr`
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- KPI 2 (Infrastructure) and KPI 3 (Security): **standard** — `1fr`
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- Grid: `grid-cols-[1.3fr_1fr_1fr_1.3fr]`
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- Cards have compact padding: `p-4` (not p-5 or p-6)
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### No Footer
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- The mockup does NOT have a footer/status bar
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- Do not add one unless explicitly requested
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### Target Display
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- Primary design target: **16-inch screen / 1920px width**
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- Lots of horizontal space available — don't constrain content width unnecessarily
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- Design should feel spacious, not cramped
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### Typography Sizes (smaller than default)
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- Card titles: 10-11px, uppercase, tracking-[1.5px], secondary color, font-medium
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- Large numbers: 24-28px, bold, primary color
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- Subtitles/labels: 10-11px, secondary color
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- Body text in lists: 13px, primary color
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- Timestamps: 11px, secondary color
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- Breakdowns: 9-10px, secondary color
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### Animations
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- Card hover: border → gold, 0.2s ease
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- Progress ring: animates from 0 to value in 1s
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- Sparklines: draw animation 1s
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- Progress bars: fill animation 0.8s
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### Icons
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- Source: Lucide React (imported per component, tree-shaken)
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- Size: 14-18px depending on context
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- Color: gold for active/accent, text-secondary for inactive
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- Gold glow on active sidebar items: `shadow-[0_0_6px_rgba(200,164,52,0.5)]`
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---
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## Page-Specific Notes
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### Glance Page
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- No footer
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- Status cards overlap hero banner
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- Middle row: 3 equal-ish columns (30/40/30)
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- Bottom row: 2 columns (65/35)
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- Network Traffic card has its own background image at low opacity
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- User avatar dropdown has: Profile, Appearance, Security, Help & Support, Sign Out
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2026-06-18 17:49:34 +00:00
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## Future Integration Notes
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### Live Provider Data (AWS, Linode, etc.)
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- All KPI/status card data (resource counts, health, pricing, budgets, cost breakdowns,
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utilization, regions/map data) is currently mocked/static.
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- The Infrastructure page (and likely Glance) should eventually integrate with real
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cloud provider APIs — AWS, Linode, or any other VPC/cloud provider — via user-supplied
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API keys, to pull live data such as:
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- Resource inventory/counts and health status
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- Pricing and budget/cost data (replacing the static Cost Breakdown numbers)
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- Resource utilization metrics
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- Region/datacenter info for the Infrastructure Map
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- Design the data layer so it's provider-agnostic (a common interface/adapter per
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provider) since users may connect more than one provider's API key.
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