State before decoration
Loading, empty, failure, offline, and maturity states must remain understandable without animation or color alone.
DESIGN SYSTEM / CONCEPT
UX Lab
A concept record for the design principles, tokens, interaction rules, and experiments behind JATSWeb.
Industrial, not hostile
Dense terminal cues are balanced by readable type, generous spacing, visible focus, and calm motion.
Public by omission
Private routes, credentials, write controls, and local services never appear in public markup or datasets.
TOKEN FIELD
System palette
Signal Yellow
#FFD900Data Cyan
#2AAACEWarning Orange
#E5622BReady Green
#74C69DINTERACTION RULES
Baseline behavior
- Every action has a visible keyboard focus state.
- Reduced-motion preferences disable nonessential transitions.
- Mobile navigation provides the same destinations as the desktop rail.
NEXT EXPERIMENTS
Documented, not promised
- Component contrast and density audits.
- Shared motion timing and transition vocabulary.
- Visual regression coverage for day and night themes.