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# Design Guidelines
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This document outlines the design guidelines for the Digital Freezone Customer Portal, covering visual design, interaction patterns, and user experience principles.
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> AI MADE THIS NOT SURE HOW GOOD THIS IS???
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## Design Principles
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### 1. Core Principles
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#### 1.1. User-Centered
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- **Focus on User Needs**: Design decisions should be driven by user needs and goals.
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- **Reduce Cognitive Load**: Minimize the mental effort required to use the platform.
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- **Progressive Disclosure**: Present information and options gradually, as needed.
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- **Contextual Relevance**: Show information and actions relevant to the user's current context.
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#### 1.2. Clarity
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- **Clear Communication**: Use clear, concise language throughout the interface.
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- **Visual Hierarchy**: Establish a clear visual hierarchy to guide attention.
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- **Purposeful Design**: Every element should serve a clear purpose.
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- **Reduce Ambiguity**: Prevent confusion through clear labeling and feedback.
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#### 1.3. Consistency
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- **Visual Consistency**: Maintain consistent visual elements across the platform.
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- **Behavioral Consistency**: Interactions should work consistently throughout.
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- **Pattern Recognition**: Leverage familiar patterns to reduce learning curve.
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- **Platform Conventions**: Follow established conventions for the web platform.
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#### 1.4. Efficiency
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- **Streamlined Workflows**: Optimize common tasks for efficiency.
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- **Reduce Steps**: Minimize the number of steps to complete tasks.
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- **Smart Defaults**: Provide sensible defaults to reduce user effort.
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- **Keyboard Accessibility**: Support efficient keyboard navigation.
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#### 1.5. Trust and Security
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- **Transparent Operations**: Make system operations visible and understandable.
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- **Security Visibility**: Make security features visible to build trust.
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- **Error Prevention**: Design to prevent errors before they occur.
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- **Data Protection**: Visibly demonstrate respect for user data.
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## Visual Design
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### 1. Color System
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#### 1.1. Primary Color Palette
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- **Primary Blue**: #3A86FF
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- Used for primary actions, key navigation, and brand elements
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- Variations: Light #7AADFF, Dark #0D47A1
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- **Secondary Purple**: #8338EC
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- Used for secondary actions and highlights
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- Variations: Light #B78AFF, Dark #5E35B1
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- **Accent Pink**: #FF006E
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- Used sparingly for emphasis and calls to action
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- Variations: Light #FF5E9F, Dark #C2185B
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#### 1.2. Functional Color Palette
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- **Success Green**: #06D6A0
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- Used for success states, confirmations, and positive trends
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- Variations: Light #67E8C2, Dark #00A878
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- **Warning Yellow**: #FFD166
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- Used for warnings, pending states, and caution indicators
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- Variations: Light #FFE4A3, Dark #FFC233
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- **Error Red**: #EF476F
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- Used for errors, alerts, and negative trends
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- Variations: Light #F47A98, Dark #D81B60
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#### 1.3. Neutral Color Palette
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- **Background White**: #FFFFFF
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- Primary background color
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- **Light Gray**: #F5F7FA
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- Secondary background, cards, containers
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- **Medium Gray**: #E1E5EB
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- Borders, dividers, disabled states
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- **Dark Gray**: #6B7280
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- Secondary text, icons, less important elements
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- **Text Black**: #1F2937
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- Primary text color
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#### 1.4. Color Usage Guidelines
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- **Accessibility**: All color combinations must meet WCAG 2.1 AA contrast requirements.
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- **Meaning**: Don't rely solely on color to convey meaning.
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- **Consistency**: Use colors consistently for the same purpose across the platform.
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- **Hierarchy**: Use color to reinforce visual hierarchy.
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- **Cultural Considerations**: Consider cultural implications of colors for international users.
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### 2. Typography
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#### 2.1. Font Families
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- **Headings**: Montserrat, sans-serif
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- Clean, modern sans-serif for all headings
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- Weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi-Bold (600), Bold (700)
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- **Body**: Open Sans, sans-serif
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- Highly readable sans-serif for all body text
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- Weights: Regular (400), Semi-Bold (600)
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- **Monospace**: Roboto Mono, monospace
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- For code, technical information, and tabular data
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- Weights: Regular (400)
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#### 2.2. Type Scale
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- **Display**: 40px/48px, Montserrat Bold
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- For major page headers and hero sections
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- **H1**: 32px/40px, Montserrat Bold
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- For page titles
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- **H2**: 24px/32px, Montserrat Semi-Bold
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- For section headings
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- **H3**: 20px/28px, Montserrat Medium
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- For subsection headings
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- **H4**: 18px/24px, Montserrat Medium
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- For card headings and minor sections
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- **Body Large**: 16px/24px, Open Sans Regular
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- For primary content
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- **Body**: 14px/20px, Open Sans Regular
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- For secondary content and general text
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- **Caption**: 12px/16px, Open Sans Regular
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- For labels, captions, and helper text
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- **Button**: 14px/20px, Open Sans Semi-Bold
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- For buttons and interactive elements
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#### 2.3. Typography Guidelines
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- **Line Length**: Aim for 50-75 characters per line for optimal readability.
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- **Alignment**: Use left alignment for most text (RTL languages will use right alignment).
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- **Hierarchy**: Establish clear typographic hierarchy through size, weight, and spacing.
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- **Responsive Adjustments**: Scale typography appropriately for different screen sizes.
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- **Accessibility**: Ensure text can be resized up to 200% without loss of content or functionality.
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### 3. Iconography
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#### 3.1. Icon Style
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- **Style**: Line icons with consistent 2px stroke weight
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- **Corner Radius**: 2px rounded corners where applicable
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- **Size**: Base size of 24x24px with clear 1px padding
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- **Consistency**: Visually consistent across the icon set
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- **Simplicity**: Simple, recognizable shapes without unnecessary detail
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#### 3.2. Icon Usage
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- **Functional Icons**: Used for actions and navigation
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- **Categorical Icons**: Used to represent categories or types
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- **Status Icons**: Used to indicate status or state
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- **Illustrative Icons**: Used to visually represent concepts
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- **Always pair icons with text** except for universally recognized icons
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#### 3.3. Icon Guidelines
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- **Accessibility**: Icons should not be the only means of conveying information.
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- **Consistency**: Use the same icon for the same action throughout the platform.
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- **Recognition**: Choose icons that clearly represent their purpose.
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- **Sizing**: Scale appropriately for different contexts (navigation, buttons, etc.).
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- **Color**: Follow color system guidelines for icon coloring.
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### 4. Layout and Spacing
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#### 4.1. Grid System
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- **Base Grid**: 8px grid for all measurements and spacing
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- **Column Grid**: 12-column responsive grid system
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- **Margins**: Consistent outer margins based on screen size
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- Desktop: 64px
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- Tablet: 32px
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- Mobile: 16px
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- **Gutters**: Consistent spacing between columns
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- Desktop: 24px
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- Tablet: 16px
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- Mobile: 8px
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#### 4.2. Spacing Scale
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- **4px**: Micro spacing (within components)
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- **8px**: Extra small spacing (between related elements)
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- **16px**: Small spacing (between component elements)
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- **24px**: Medium spacing (between components)
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- **32px**: Large spacing (between groups of components)
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- **48px**: Extra large spacing (between major sections)
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- **64px**: 2x large spacing (major page divisions)
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#### 4.3. Layout Guidelines
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- **Consistency**: Use consistent spacing throughout the interface.
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- **Proximity**: Group related elements together.
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- **Alignment**: Maintain strong alignment of elements.
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- **White Space**: Use white space deliberately to improve readability and focus.
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- **Responsive Behavior**: Define how layouts adapt to different screen sizes.
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### 5. Imagery and Graphics
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#### 5.1. Photography
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- **Style**: Clean, professional imagery with natural lighting
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- **Subject**: Diverse representation of users and contexts
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- **Purpose**: Support content rather than dominate
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- **Quality**: High-resolution, properly cropped and scaled
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- **Consistency**: Visual consistency across all photography
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#### 5.2. Illustrations
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- **Style**: Simple, geometric illustrations with consistent line weight
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- **Color**: Using the established color palette
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- **Purpose**: Explain concepts, add visual interest, guide users
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- **Consistency**: Consistent illustration style throughout
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- **Scalability**: Works at various sizes
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#### 5.3. Data Visualization
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- **Clarity**: Focus on clear communication of data
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- **Simplicity**: Avoid chart junk and unnecessary decoration
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- **Consistency**: Consistent styles across all visualizations
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- **Color**: Strategic use of color to highlight important data
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- **Accessibility**: Multiple ways to distinguish data (not just color)
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#### 5.4. Imagery Guidelines
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- **Relevance**: All imagery should be relevant to the content.
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- **Performance**: Optimize for fast loading without quality loss.
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- **Accessibility**: Provide alternative text for all meaningful images.
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- **Responsive Behavior**: Define how images scale and crop at different screen sizes.
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- **Cultural Sensitivity**: Ensure imagery is culturally appropriate for the audience.
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## UI Components
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### 1. Navigation Components
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#### 1.1. Main Navigation
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- **Desktop**: Sidebar navigation with expandable sections
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- Width: 240px (expanded), 64px (collapsed)
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- Clearly indicates current section
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- Supports up to 3 levels of hierarchy
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- **Tablet**: Collapsible sidebar, expanded on demand
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- **Mobile**: Bottom navigation for primary sections, hamburger menu for full navigation
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Active, Focused
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#### 1.2. Secondary Navigation
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- **Tabs**: For switching between related views
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- Horizontal arrangement
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- Clear active state
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- Scrollable on smaller screens
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- **Breadcrumbs**: For hierarchical navigation and context
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- Shows path from home to current page
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- Truncates middle sections when space is limited
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Active, Focused
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#### 1.3. Page Navigation
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- **Pagination**: For navigating through multi-page content
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- Shows current page and total pages
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- Provides previous/next and first/last options
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- **Infinite Scroll**: For content feeds and continuous data
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- Clear loading indicators
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- Maintains scroll position when navigating back
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Active, Disabled, Loading
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### 2. Input Components
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#### 2.1. Text Inputs
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- **Text Field**: For single-line text input
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- Clear labeling above field
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- Placeholder text for guidance
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- Validation states with helpful messages
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- **Text Area**: For multi-line text input
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- Resizable when appropriate
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- Character/word count when limits apply
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- **Search Field**: For search functionality
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- Search icon for recognition
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- Clear button when text is entered
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- Suggestions as user types
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- **States**: Normal, Focus, Filled, Error, Disabled
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#### 2.2. Selection Inputs
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- **Dropdown**: For selecting from a list of options
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- Clear labeling
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- Support for option groups
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- Search functionality for long lists
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- **Multi-select**: For selecting multiple options
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- Clear indication of selected items
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- Ability to remove selections individually
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- **Radio Buttons**: For mutually exclusive options
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- Vertical arrangement by default
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- Clear labeling for each option
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- **Checkboxes**: For multiple selections or toggles
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- Clear labeling for each option
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- Support for indeterminate state when appropriate
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Selected, Focused, Disabled
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#### 2.3. Date and Time Inputs
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- **Date Picker**: For selecting dates
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- Calendar view with month/year navigation
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- Highlight relevant dates (today, selected)
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- Support for date ranges
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- **Time Picker**: For selecting times
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- 12/24 hour format based on locale
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- Minute increments appropriate to context
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- **Date-Time Picker**: For selecting both date and time
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- Combined interface or sequential selection
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Selected, Focused, Disabled
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#### 2.4. File Inputs
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- **File Upload**: For uploading files
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- Drag-and-drop area
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- File browser button
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- Progress indication during upload
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- Preview for uploaded files
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- Support for multiple files when appropriate
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- **States**: Normal, Drag Over, Uploading, Success, Error
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### 3. Action Components
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#### 3.1. Buttons
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- **Primary Button**: For main actions
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- Filled background (Primary Blue)
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- High visibility
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- Used sparingly (typically one per section)
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- **Secondary Button**: For alternative actions
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- Outlined style (border only)
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- Medium visibility
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- **Tertiary Button**: For less important actions
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- Text only, no background or border
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- Low visibility
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- **Icon Button**: For common actions with recognizable icons
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- Clear tooltip on hover
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- Consistent sizing
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Active, Focused, Loading, Disabled
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#### 3.2. Links
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- **Text Links**: For navigation within or between pages
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- Underlined or distinctly colored
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- Clear hover state
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- **Action Links**: For triggering actions (similar to tertiary buttons)
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- No underline by default
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- Clear hover state
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- **External Links**: For navigation to external sites
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- Visual indicator for external destination
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- Consider opening in new tab
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Visited, Focused
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#### 3.3. Action Menus
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- **Dropdown Menu**: For presenting multiple actions
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- Clear trigger element (often an icon)
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- Consistent positioning
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- Logical grouping of options
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- **Context Menu**: For context-specific actions
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- Triggered by right-click or long press
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- Positioned near the target element
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Active, Focused, Disabled
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### 4. Feedback Components
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#### 4.1. Notifications
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- **Toast**: For temporary notifications
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- Appears briefly and auto-dismisses
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- Non-blocking
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- Used for confirmations and non-critical information
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- **Alert**: For important information requiring attention
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- Persistent until dismissed
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- Different styles for different severity levels
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- May require action
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- **Banner**: For system-wide announcements
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- Appears at the top of the interface
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- Can be dismissible or persistent
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- **States**: Information, Success, Warning, Error
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#### 4.2. Progress Indicators
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- **Progress Bar**: For operations with known duration
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- Linear representation of progress
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- Percentage or step indication when appropriate
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- **Spinner**: For operations with unknown duration
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- Indicates activity without specific progress
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- Consistent animation
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- **Skeleton Screens**: For content loading
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- Approximates the layout of loading content
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- Reduces perceived loading time
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- **States**: Active, Paused, Completed, Error
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#### 4.3. Validation Feedback
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- **Inline Validation**: For immediate feedback during input
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- Appears near the relevant field
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- Clear error messages
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- Success confirmation when appropriate
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- **Form Validation**: For feedback upon form submission
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- Summary of errors at top of form
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- Individual field highlighting
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- Clear guidance for correction
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- **States**: Success, Warning, Error
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### 5. Container Components
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#### 5.1. Cards
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- **Standard Card**: For containing related content
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- Consistent padding (16px)
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- Optional header and footer
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- Clear visual boundaries
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- **Action Card**: For selectable or interactive content
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- Clear hover and selected states
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- Optional action buttons
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- **Status Card**: For displaying status information
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- Visual indicators of status
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- Consistent status positioning
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Selected, Focused, Disabled
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#### 5.2. Modals and Dialogs
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- **Modal Dialog**: For focused tasks requiring attention
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- Blocks interaction with the main interface
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- Clear purpose and actions
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- Dismissible via close button, ESC key, or clicking overlay
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- **Confirmation Dialog**: For confirming destructive or important actions
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- Clear question or statement
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- Explicit action buttons (avoid Yes/No in favor of specific actions)
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- **Side Panel**: For supplementary information or tasks
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- Slides in from edge of screen
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- Does not fully block the main interface
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- **States**: Opening, Open, Closing, Closed
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#### 5.3. Tables and Lists
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- **Data Table**: For structured data presentation
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- Consistent column alignment
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- Sortable columns when appropriate
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- Pagination or virtualization for large datasets
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- Row selection when actions apply to items
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- **List**: For sequential information
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- Consistent item structure
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- Clear item separation
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- Support for various content types within items
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- **Grid**: For visual collections
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- Consistent item sizing
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- Responsive behavior
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- Support for filtering and sorting
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- **States**: Normal, Hover, Selected, Focused, Loading, Empty
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## Interaction Patterns
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### 1. Navigation Patterns
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#### 1.1. Information Architecture
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- **Hierarchical Structure**: Clear parent-child relationships
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- **Flat Structure**: For peer-level content
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- **Hub and Spoke**: Central dashboard with specialized sections
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- **Search-Oriented**: For large content repositories
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- **Task-Oriented**: Organized around user tasks and workflows
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#### 1.2. Navigation Methods
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- **Direct Navigation**: Clear paths to specific destinations
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- **Exploratory Navigation**: Supporting discovery of content
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- **Contextual Navigation**: Related content suggestions
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- **Search**: For finding specific content quickly
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- **Filters**: For narrowing down large sets of content
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#### 1.3. Transitions
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- **Page Transitions**: Subtle animations between pages
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- **Content Transitions**: Smooth changes within a page
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- **State Transitions**: Clear feedback when state changes
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- **Loading Transitions**: Indicating content is loading
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- **Keep transitions under 300ms** for perceived immediacy
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### 2. Input Patterns
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#### 2.1. Form Design
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- **Single-Column Layout**: For most forms
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- **Logical Grouping**: Related fields grouped together
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- **Progressive Disclosure**: Show fields as needed
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- **Inline Validation**: Immediate feedback on input
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- **Clear Submission**: Obvious submission button
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- **Autofocus**: First field focused automatically
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- **Tabbing Order**: Logical progression through form
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#### 2.2. Input Assistance
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- **Autocomplete**: Suggestions based on input
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- **Type-Ahead**: Predictions as user types
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- **Default Values**: Smart defaults when possible
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- **Formatting Assistance**: Automatic formatting of specialized inputs
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- **Contextual Help**: Guidance specific to the current field
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- **Error Prevention**: Constraints that prevent invalid input
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- **Error Correction**: Suggestions for fixing errors
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#### 2.3. Complex Inputs
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- **Multi-Step Forms**: Breaking complex forms into manageable steps
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- **Dependent Fields**: Fields that change based on other inputs
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- **Repeating Sections**: For variable numbers of similar inputs
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- **Drag and Drop**: For spatial arrangement or file uploads
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- **Rich Text Editing**: For formatted text input
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- **Specialized Inputs**: For specific data types (color, range, etc.)
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### 3. Feedback Patterns
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#### 3.1. System Status
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- **Loading States**: Clear indication when system is working
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- **Success States**: Confirmation when actions complete successfully
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- **Error States**: Clear explanation when something goes wrong
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- **Empty States**: Helpful guidance when no content exists
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- **Partial States**: Indication when content is partially loaded
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#### 3.2. User Guidance
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- **Tooltips**: Brief explanations on hover
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- **Popovers**: More detailed contextual information
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- **Coachmarks**: Highlighting features for new users
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- **Walkthroughs**: Step-by-step guidance for complex tasks
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- **Contextual Help**: Assistance specific to current context
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- **Progressive Disclosure**: Revealing complexity as needed
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#### 3.3. Confirmation and Alerts
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- **Confirmation Before Action**: For destructive or significant actions
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- **Undo Capability**: Allow reversal of actions when possible
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- **Non-Modal Feedback**: Toast notifications for non-blocking information
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- **Modal Alerts**: For critical information requiring acknowledgment
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- **Persistent Notifications**: For ongoing conditions or system status
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### 4. Data Visualization Patterns
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#### 4.1. Chart Types
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- **Line Charts**: For trends over time
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- **Bar Charts**: For comparing discrete categories
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- **Pie/Donut Charts**: For part-to-whole relationships (use sparingly)
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- **Scatter Plots**: For correlation between variables
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- **Heat Maps**: For showing intensity across two dimensions
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- **Tables**: For precise values and multiple metrics
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#### 4.2. Data Interaction
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- **Filtering**: Narrowing data based on criteria
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- **Sorting**: Reordering data for different perspectives
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- **Drilling Down**: Moving from summary to detail
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- **Highlighting**: Emphasizing specific data points
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- **Tooltips**: Revealing details on hover
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- **Selection**: Choosing specific data for further action
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- **Comparison**: Viewing multiple datasets side by side
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#### 4.3. Data Presentation
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- **Progressive Disclosure**: Starting with overview, details on demand
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- **Appropriate Scale**: Choosing scales that don't distort perception
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- **Consistent Baselines**: For accurate comparison
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- **Clear Labeling**: Explicit labels for all data elements
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- **Legends**: Clear explanation of visual encodings
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- **Annotations**: Highlighting important points or anomalies
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- **Responsive Adaptation**: Appropriate visualizations for different screen sizes
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## Responsive Design
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### 1. Breakpoints
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#### 1.1. Major Breakpoints
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- **Mobile**: 320px - 767px
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- **Tablet**: 768px - 1023px
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- **Desktop**: 1024px - 1439px
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- **Large Desktop**: 1440px and above
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#### 1.2. Component-Specific Breakpoints
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- Use additional breakpoints as needed for specific components
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- Focus on content needs rather than specific devices
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- Consider orientation changes (portrait/landscape)
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### 2. Responsive Patterns
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#### 2.1. Layout Patterns
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- **Stacking**: Converting horizontal layouts to vertical
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- **Column Drop**: Reducing multi-column layouts
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- **Off-Canvas**: Moving navigation off-screen
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- **Reveal**: Showing/hiding content based on screen size
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- **Reflow**: Reorganizing content for different screen sizes
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#### 2.2. Navigation Patterns
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- **Desktop**: Sidebar or horizontal navigation
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- **Tablet**: Collapsible navigation or tabs
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- **Mobile**: Bottom navigation, hamburger menu, or priority navigation
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#### 2.3. Content Patterns
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- **Progressive Disclosure**: Showing less content initially on smaller screens
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- **Prioritization**: Emphasizing most important content on smaller screens
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- **Simplification**: Reducing complexity on smaller screens
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- **Optimization**: Different content formats for different screen sizes
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### 3. Touch Considerations
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#### 3.1. Touch Targets
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- **Minimum Size**: 44x44px for all interactive elements
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- **Spacing**: Adequate spacing between touch targets (minimum 8px)
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- **Positioning**: Placing important actions within easy reach
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- **Feedback**: Clear visual feedback for touch interactions
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#### 3.2. Touch Gestures
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- **Tap**: Primary interaction for buttons and links
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- **Swipe**: For scrolling, navigation, or dismissal
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- **Pinch/Spread**: For zooming when appropriate
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- **Long Press**: For contextual actions
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- **Provide visible alternatives** for all gesture-based interactions
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## Accessibility Guidelines
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### 1. Visual Accessibility
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#### 1.1. Color and Contrast
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- **Contrast Ratio**: Minimum 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text
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- **Color Independence**: Don't rely solely on color to convey information
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- **Text Over Images**: Ensure sufficient contrast with backgrounds
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- **Focus Indicators**: High-contrast focus states for keyboard navigation
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- **Dark Mode**: Support for system dark mode preference
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#### 1.2. Typography and Readability
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- **Text Sizing**: Support for browser text resizing up to 200%
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- **Line Height**: Minimum 1.5 times the font size
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- **Letter Spacing**: Adequate spacing for readability
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- **Font Weight**: Sufficient contrast between weights
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- **Text Alignment**: Left-aligned text for LTR languages (right for RTL)
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- **Line Length**: Maximum 80 characters per line
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#### 1.3. Visual Information
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- **Text Alternatives**: For all non-text content
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- **Captions**: For video content
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- **Transcripts**: For audio content
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- **Visual Hierarchy**: Clear without relying on color
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- **Iconography**: Paired with text for clarity
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### 2. Interaction Accessibility
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#### 2.1. Keyboard Navigation
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- **Focus Order**: Logical tab order following visual layout
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- **Focus Visibility**: Clear visual indication of keyboard focus
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- **Keyboard Shortcuts**: For common actions
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- **Skip Links**: For bypassing repetitive navigation
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- **No Keyboard Traps**: Ensure users can navigate away from all elements
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#### 2.2. Input Methods
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- **Device Independence**: Support for various input methods
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- **Touch Targets**: Adequately sized for all users
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- **Error Prevention**: Confirmation for consequential actions
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- **Error Correction**: Clear guidance for fixing input errors
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- **Labels**: Explicit labels for all form controls
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#### 2.3. Time-Based Interactions
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- **Timeout Warnings**: Advance notice of session timeouts
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- **Extend Time**: Option to extend time limits
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- **No Time Limits**: For essential functions when possible
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- **Pause/Stop/Hide**: Controls for moving content
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- **Reduced Motion**: Support for reduced motion preference
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### 3. Cognitive Accessibility
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#### 3.1. Content Clarity
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- **Plain Language**: Clear, simple writing
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- **Consistent Navigation**: Predictable placement of navigation elements
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- **Consistent Functionality**: Similar elements function similarly
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- **Meaningful Sequence**: Content presented in a logical order
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- **Section Headings**: Clear organization of content
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#### 3.2. User Assistance
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- **Clear Instructions**: Explicit guidance for complex tasks
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- **Error Messages**: Specific, constructive error messages
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- **Contextual Help**: Assistance available when needed
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- **Predictable Interactions**: Consistent behavior across the platform
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- **Forgiving Interfaces**: Allow for user errors and provide recovery paths
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## Design System Implementation
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### 1. Component Library
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#### 1.1. Component Structure
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- **Atomic Design Methodology**: Atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, pages
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- **Component Hierarchy**: Clear parent-child relationships
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- **Composition Over Inheritance**: Favoring component composition
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- **Stateful Components**: Clear definition of component states
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- **Responsive Variants**: Adaptations for different screen sizes
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#### 1.2. Component Documentation
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- **Usage Guidelines**: When and how to use each component
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- **Properties/Props**: All configurable options
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- **Accessibility Considerations**: Specific accessibility requirements
|
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- **Code Examples**: Implementation examples
|
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- **Visual Examples**: All states and variations
|
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- **Do's and Don'ts**: Best practices and anti-patterns
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### 2. Design Tokens
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#### 2.1. Token Categories
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- **Colors**: All color values
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- **Typography**: Font families, sizes, weights, line heights
|
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- **Spacing**: Margin and padding values
|
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- **Sizing**: Component and element dimensions
|
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- **Borders**: Width, style, radius
|
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- **Shadows**: Box and text shadows
|
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- **Z-index**: Layering values
|
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- **Animation**: Timing, easing functions
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|
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#### 2.2. Token Implementation
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- **Platform-Agnostic Format**: For cross-platform consistency
|
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- **Naming Convention**: Clear, consistent naming
|
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- **Semantic Tokens**: Named by purpose, not value
|
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- **Token Hierarchy**: Base tokens and derived tokens
|
|
- **Documentation**: Clear explanation of token usage
|
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|
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### 3. Design-to-Development Workflow
|
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|
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#### 3.1. Design Handoff
|
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- **Design Specs**: Detailed specifications for implementation
|
|
- **Asset Delivery**: Optimized assets in appropriate formats
|
|
- **Interaction Specifications**: Clear definition of interactive behaviors
|
|
- **Accessibility Requirements**: Specific accessibility considerations
|
|
- **Edge Cases**: Handling of extreme content or conditions
|
|
|
|
#### 3.2. Collaboration Process
|
|
- **Shared Language**: Common terminology between design and development
|
|
- **Regular Reviews**: Ongoing review of implementation
|
|
- **Feedback Channels**: Clear process for providing feedback
|
|
- **Version Control**: Tracking changes to design specifications
|
|
- **Design QA**: Process for verifying implementation matches design intent |