Findings — second handheld UX review

Findings use stable IDs for this round. Severity is user impact when the current artifact demonstrates it; confidence describes support for the diagnosis, not certainty about physical impact. Evidence absence is recorded as an evidence gap rather than a defect.

ID	Finding and reproducible state	Severity / confidence	Correction, existing owner, dependency, effort	Observable acceptance and remaining gate
UX2-01	The current Home capture shows a large stacked time with conspicuous dark stroke/shadow over a bright, detailed wallpaper. Relative to the quieter typographic clock in the authored interaction study, the clock attracts more weight than the current app grid and the study’s hierarchy suggests. This is a subjective polish comparison, not a functional failure.	P3 optional refinement / medium confidence in the pixel comparison; impact unknown	Ask the user whether a quieter clock treatment is desired. Preserve the selected wallpaper and palette; test a lighter outline/shadow or other existing clock style only as a labeled proposal. Owner: Home clock appearance in `the-shell-presents-a-pinned-home-screen`; design input in `docs/design/clock-widget-research.md`. Effort: small visual exploration; no hardware claim.	Compare current and proposal over the same bright/dark wallpaper without reducing legibility; keep unchanged unless the user accepts the visual direction. Physical contrast needs glass review.
UX2-02	Current-source card deck appearance is not represented by a reviewed capture in this baseline. The available Overview image is source `f39cb7eb`, while the persistent system is source `5bb67db128210f830dab4de0d20a4b0eca13c578`.	No severity assigned; confidence high that evidence is missing	No pixel correction inferred. Owner: integrated card candidate recheck in this change’s task group 3, coordinated with card/compositor owners. Dependency: serialized board/candidate capture. Effort: one focused review session.	Capture current-source Overview and inspect native pixels. The three exact-candidate operator-accepted real-finger checks are in operator-navigation.json; this review does not repeat them or extend them to other card interactions.
UX2-03	The output picker in the board native capture overlays Keyboard/Motion rows and displays a second volume slider beside the underlying Settings control. This demonstrates layout/content density, not a blocked action; overlays normally cover background content.	No severity assigned; optional refinement only; user impact `UNVERIFIED`	Keep current selection semantics and authored theme. Consider reducing redundant volume presentation or adjusting contrast/placement only if a finger review finds confusion or obstruction. Owner: Rust Settings/output-picker route under `the-handheld-presents-a-coherent-shell`; physical follow-up includes that proposal’s 6.4. Effort: visual review first; no source change authorized by this finding.	Review the opened/closed state with actual finger input. If unrelated control access and dismissal are clear, retain current layout. Current evidence is native capture plus injected input, not finger acceptance.
UX2-04	The drawer’s current authored-theme render leaves a large quiet lower area after eight entries. The available host render does not show catalog overflow.	No severity assigned; low confidence as a usability problem	Do not compress or add permanent controls based only on whitespace. Existing owner: `the-launcher-explains-app-actions`. Dependency: representative long-list fixture/current board capture. Effort: evidence-only until a concrete discovery failure appears.	Show a realistic larger installed catalog and verify scroll/search, with existing target sizes retained. Do not carry forward old full-width generic-row recommendations as current defects.

Reconciled and superseded audit claims

The September visual-gap audit’s outlined generic full-width launcher rows predate the current icon-grid authored render. Keep the desire for real-catalog overflow coverage; retire its row-layout recommendation.
Earlier Settings dead-space and uneven-row-spacing findings are superseded for the loaded volume/settings states shown in the 2026-10-01 physical dark/light captures. Do not generalize this to every Settings route.
Earlier “Settings still loading” evidence is stale for the captured current source. Conversely, the new picker overlap is current native evidence, not a claim about finger difficulty.
Older card title/identity/motion findings cannot be confirmed or cleared by the current Home-only image. Keep those owners’ source-level and physical gates intact; this review adds no card implementation claim.
Prior user decisions remain constraints: preserve theme/wallpaper/icon choices; no permanent extra buttons/borders; long-press remains grab/drag; mouse secondary click is the app menu. They are not new acceptance of other current journeys.
The user’s exact-candidate real-finger report accepts Home→All apps, handle→Overview, and Terminal open/return for this exact p1a1hz / 3hy6 source after manual matching-kernel boot. Ordinary reboot later preserved those exact identities; it did not repeat the gestures. Reuse those accepted observations without widening them to Home editing, search, keyboard, card-motion, or mouse-menu acceptance.

Independent coordinator review

The root coordinator reviewed the captures, journey and findings draft on 2026-10-01. The first review rejected the picker as a demonstrated failure; this revision treats it only as optional density/consistency work and keeps physical impact UNVERIFIED. It also added the exact-source operator-accepted Home/Overview/Apps/Terminal interactions and the subjective Home-clock hierarchy comparison, then reordered priorities around the measured picker motion gap, remaining integrated card/keyboard recheck, and existing theme consumer consistency work. The final sheet corrections are recorded in visual-review.md. The coordinator agrees the host critique and reconciliation are sufficient for tasks 2.1 and 2.3. No disagreement remains on the scope or severity of the four findings; all physical and unexercised journey limits remain explicit.

Candidate recheck — 2026-10-09

The current recheck reviews all four findings on the identified normal runtime. No P0/P1 severity was assigned or newly established. UX2-02’s missing current Overview image is resolved for the observed one-card state; UX2-04 now has a 19-entry installed-catalog capture. Clock/picker ideas remain optional, and no optical/motion/overflow assertion is added. Existing implementation and physical owners retain their gates.