Weekly demo improvements and fixes
September 30–October 7, 2026
Demo improvement · Across launch phases · Completed work and checks
Historical work completed by 2026-10-07; recorded retrospectively on October 15, 2026. This record does not represent newly completed work in the current week or stakeholder approval.
This closed historical weekly improvements record was created retrospectively on October15. It captures the original week’s small fixes; later screens may supersede their appearance. These are historical evidence reviews rather than instructions to reproduce a retired interface.
Implementation status is separate from stakeholder approval and publication.
Goal
As a person reviewing the Backcountry demo, I want readable layouts, coherent navigation and a reliable preview so small issues do not interrupt the review.
How to check
- Read each dated historical improvement for its location, change and recorded check.
- Some controls and layouts have since changed; historical evidence is the review method for those items.
- Use connected feature stories for current behavior. This historical record stays closed while new improvements belong to the current weekly record.
Historical completion criteria
- Keep the historical September30–October7 period explicit and retain real October15 record-creation dates.
- Record exact changes and historical verification for small layout, navigation and preview fixes.
- Link product stories separately; do not count newsletter/contact or other feature implementation twice as new features.
- Keep later weeks’ fixes in their own records and preserve the original first-review snapshot counts.
Recorded results · 7 items
Historical changes and the verification recorded at the time. Links to current references may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Consolidate the demo controls
documentation review- Where:
- Prototype presenter banner
- What changed:
- Combined the separate demo bars, with hide/restore behavior and a responsive phone layout.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Review the historical behavior; the current Brief controls have since been redesigned.
Evidence: September30 UX chat/log record desktop/phone checks and hide/restore behavior.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Repair bundled image delivery
technical review- Where:
- Initial staging asset paths
- What changed:
- Corrected base-path packaging so logo and photography payloads were delivered locally at the scoped staging route.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Read the recorded live image-payload checks; no private hosting steps are required.
Evidence: September30 hosting log records expected PNG/JPEG payload verification. This cross-references the D063 release, not an additional deployment.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Clarify the profile header
documentation review- Where:
- My Backcountry → identity header
- What changed:
- Separated membership, name and descriptor, aligned avatar/identity/Edit on desktop and stacked them deliberately on phones.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Review the dated geometry/layout evidence; the profile may include later changes.
Evidence: October2 UX chat/log record desktop and390px verification with safe long-name wrapping.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Separate product navigation from launch-phase labels
documentation review- Where:
- Application footer and phase badges
- What changed:
- Added the member-facing footer, tightened the demo banner and confined build-phase labels to the Roadmap.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Review the recorded footer/banner/phase-placement changes; current controls may differ.
Evidence: October2 UX log records desktop/phone layout checks and staging versions for these changes. Product features D010–D012 are tracked separately.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Restore reliable local review access
technical review- Where:
- Local preview process and built asset manifest
- What changed:
- Recovered stopped review access and refreshed stale compiled asset references after builds.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Read the verified host-response/asset checks; this is historical preview maintenance, not proof of current phone connectivity.
Evidence: October1–2 UX/log evidence records persistent local review and correction of missing asset requests.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Use direct page addresses and browser history
documentation review- Where:
- Member and Brief navigation
- What changed:
- Moved internal navigation to page paths while retaining legacy review-link resolution and shared demo state.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Read the historical direct-link, Back/Forward and joined-group-state checks.
Evidence: October6 UX log records native/legacy URLs, history navigation and state retention checks.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.
- Completed:
Simplify navigation through the Brief
documentation review- Where:
- Stakeholder preview bar, Brief menu and role dropdown
- What changed:
- Consolidated Brief entry points and searchable detail navigation, reordered progress access and used a custom grouped role dropdown.
- Expected result / How to check:
- Read the recorded desktop/phone menu, Escape, Back and role-label checks. The role selector at that time did not open later role-specific Homes.
Evidence: October7 Brief navigation log records layout/menu/history checks; later role-specific experiences are outside this historical item.
Historical work completed by October 7, 2026; recorded retrospectively on October 15. Current screens may include later revisions.