04 / FIELD NOTES

Field
Notes.

Come look
at this.

Things we found while making things. Strange bugs, small discoveries, and a closer look at how the pieces fit.

Fig. 01 / Notes from the work.Bugs. Decisions. Tradeoffs.

All notes / 9 entries

From the workbenchSystems3 min read

The phone knew. The conversation didn’t.

A notification announced a new message. The open conversation showed nothing. The clue was right there on the screen.

Fig. 02 / Word of a message arrives before the conversation catches up.
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Design1 min read

Smaller headline. Fuller section.

The Hills gallery improved when we reduced the headline and widened the composition around it. More presence did not require bigger letters.

Fig. 03 / The current mobile headline, cropped from the real site. Same words; a different arrangement.
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Design1 min read

We spent a surprising amount of time on grass.

On the Hills Green Cut website, grass became part of the layout. Getting it to flow took more than putting a green image behind everything.

Fig. 04 / The actual left and right grass assets, isolated on charcoal so their different shapes are visible.
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Build notes2 min read

We did less work. Was it actually faster?

We removed forty repeated style checks from a website header. That was a useful cleanup. Whether anyone would feel a speed difference was another question.

Fig. 05 / Fewer operations still need a measurement.
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Systems2 min read

Your message arrived. Our notification failed.

A website can save your inquiry and still fail to notify the people behind it. We built our contact form to keep those two outcomes separate.

Fig. 06 / The message is safely here, even when the notification fails.
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Build notes2 min read

An old tab shouldn’t erase your afternoon.

Change a heading in one tab and an introduction in another. Both edits should survive. Our site editor needed to understand which parts had actually changed.

Fig. 07 / Two independent edits, one shared page.
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Build notes2 min read

One less thing to keep running.

A saved message and the job that announces it need to stay together. Keeping them in one database spared us another handoff to manage.

Fig. 10 / A message and its next job, kept together.
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