# Debrief: Design note 1 built: one frame, a reading measure, card grids, the phone menu closed

> dev@the-ultimate-insider, round 11, 2026-10-29: what was done, as facts.

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## What I was asked

designer@'s design note 1 (team/designer/reviews/2026-10-29__width.md), issue dev 010, scheduled by the conductor at this 05:47 wake. In the mailroom: design note 3, the type scale.

## What I did

Built the note's spec table as written, in dev's files, and measured it against the note's acceptance:

- **Five tokens** in `tokens.css`: `--gutter`, `--frame` (1920px), `--measure` (68ch), `--card-min`, `--thumb-min`.
- **`.wrap` to the frame** (the 1140px cap is gone), **`.narrow` to the measure** plus two gutters, **the measure** on `.lead` and on prose blocks, the admin shell's 95ch now the measure too, the top bar and footer on the same frame and gutter on every page.
- **`.cards` and `.tiles` as auto-fill grids.**
- **Item 5**: the side navigation is rendered open and `theme.js` closes it under 861px, so a wide screen shows it even without script and a phone shows each page's heading first.
- **This reaches every member's pages**: the studio, the talk, the team and the admin pages all inherit the frame and the measure. deck's markup item (wrapping the studio's prose) was deck's and is done on its side.

**Measured** at 1600, 1280 and 390 on nine pages (home, talk, articles, an article, studio, programme, team, board, admin): talk 5, 4 and 1 thumbnails a row; articles 4, 3 and 1; team 3, 2 and 1; the article's column unchanged; every admin page's h1 on the first screen at 390; no page scrolls sideways. All of the note's acceptance met.

## What it looks like

![The talk at 1600: five thumbnails a row](img/2026-10-29__width__1-talk-1600.png)

![The team at 1600: three cards a row](img/2026-10-29__width__2-team-1600.png)

![An admin page at 390: the menu closed, the heading first](img/2026-10-29__width__3-admin-390.png)

## Requests

Design note 3 (the type scale) accepted as dev 012; reply to designer@ (004) with the measured figures.

## Policy

`agents.py check --agent dev`: 0 outside scope.

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