--- name: parked-ui-consistency-audit description: "CLOSED as a homogenization mandate — overruled by the owner's 'UNIQUE ON PURPOSE' ruling. Only a narrow non-conflicting scope (density, contrast, tap targets) may ever be revived." metadata: node_type: memory type: project originSessionId: 0b7c5f41-bb34-4ab4-93be-fdb363f5eb40 --- # ⛔ OVERRULED — DO NOT RUN THIS AS WRITTEN This was parked (2026-06-28) as a cross-panel structural/style consistency audit whose deliverable included **gate guards that would FAIL THE BUILD when a panel deviated from a shared pattern**. That enforcement half is **DEAD**, and the file is kept only so nobody re-derives it. **Why it is dead:** it directly contradicts the owner's own standing ruling, recorded in [[parked-nv-overhaul-design-audit]] — the varied per-instrument gestures are *"UNIQUE ON PURPOSE"* and *"Do NOT homogenize them."* That ruling flows from the custom-1-of-1-per-screen philosophy in [[design-overhaul-direction]]. Mechanically enforcing one shared pattern across every panel is precisely the homogenization he forbade. **Running this audit as originally written would violate a direct owner instruction.** Future audits must also not re-flag per-instrument variation as a flaw. *Correction 2026-07-20: this file previously asserted a single "established pattern" as the target standard and specified build-failing consistency guards. That premise was removed — it was in live conflict with the owner's ruling.* ## What MAY still be worth doing (narrow, non-conflicting) Consistency dimensions that are about **legibility and reachability**, not about making screens look or behave alike: - **Density / spacing** — comfortable and predictable, without flattening a screen's identity. - **Contrast** — no surface below the a11y floor. - **Tap-target size** — every control actually hittable (overlaps with [[parked-accessibility-audit]] and [[parked-mobile-audit]]). These are safe because none of them require two panels to share a structure or an interaction gesture. Anything beyond these three needs the owner's explicit go, and must be checked against the ruling above first. ## The one durable observation worth keeping The owner's original motivation was that **he kept requesting one-off UI fixes**, and read that as a symptom rather than a series of unrelated bugs. That instinct still stands — but the remedy is *shared foundations* (density, contrast, targets), **not** a uniform panel template.