Implements the direction agreed from the identity board: Route C ("Cohort")
with the paper ground from C1, the Schibsted Grotesk / Literata pairing from
C2, and the iris accent from C3. Dark theme is in scope from the start rather
than retrofitted.
The audit found three things wrong beyond taste:
* No brand asset set. og:image was absent entirely, so every link shared into
a class WhatsApp group rendered as a bare grey card. apple-touch-icon pointed
at an SVG, which iOS ignores, and the manifest shipped no PNGs, so Android
installs had no icon. The header mark and the favicon had also drifted into
two different logos.
* No colour discipline. --primary and --trend-down were the same coral, so the
main CTA and "below average" shared a hue. 58 distinct hex values were spread
across component CSS, and the chart palette was still Chart.js's stock demo
colours.
* A dark theme that was declared but never built — themeColor announced a dark
variant with no dark styling behind it.
What changed:
Colour now has exactly three jobs that never borrow each other's hues: brand
(iris) for interactive and identity, status (teal/amber) for above/below a
comparison point, and phase for categories. Teal/amber rather than green/red
keeps the above/below signal readable for every form of colour blindness.
Every chromatic literal in component CSS is now a token, and the JS-painted
surfaces (Chart.js, Leaflet) read the tokens through lib/theme so they follow
the theme instead of ignoring it.
The mark is the five-bar cohort spread — the same object as the distribution
strip inside a school row, built from opacity steps so it inverts cleanly.
components/Logo.tsx is the single source; the favicon, apple-icon and share
card all derive from its geometry.
globals.css drops 123 dead global classes left over from the vanilla-JS app
(only the btn family, .skip-link and .main were still referenced), along with
the noise overlay. It also gains prefers-reduced-motion support, which was
missing entirely, and a type scale so the 54 ad-hoc font sizes have somewhere
to converge.
Verified: tsc clean, 159 unit tests pass, production build succeeds and
prerenders /icon.svg, /apple-icon and /opengraph-image. Three e2e journeys
added for the asset set, the themeColor/background match, and the dark theme
actually repainting — all silent failures that nothing on the page reveals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
'COMPARING / 3 primary schools' — 0.72rem uppercase eyebrow over a
0.95rem semibold count, sized to sit alongside the 0.92rem chip names
without dominating. Desktop only; mobile pills unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The bar was a plain flex row while sections use a 200px-label + per-school
grid, so chips drifted off the columns they label. The bar now shares the
sections' grid template (via --school-count) at the same 761px breakpoint;
verified pixel-exact against live section columns (236/615/994). Mobile
pills unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The Navigation header is position:sticky top:0 (z-index 1000). The school
bar was also sticky top:0 (z-index 10), so when scrolled it pinned at the
same top:0 *behind* the header — on mobile 57 of its 72px were covered,
leaving only a sliver, so you couldn't see which schools were selected.
Offset the bar's sticky top to the header height (65px desktop, 57px
mobile — the Navigation breakpoint is also 640px) so it pins just below.
e2e guard asserts the bar's sticky offset is at least the header height
(verified it fails against the pre-fix build).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The grid sections (At a glance, Ofsted, Getting a place, Who goes there)
collapsed generically on mobile — grey label pills, full names wrapping
to 3 lines, no dots — making the page ~2x the mockup's height and
'significantly different' from the mobile design.
Each measure is now wrapped in a <Measure> that is display:contents on
desktop (so the label + cells still flow into the shared aligned grid,
unchanged) and a white card on mobile with compact [dot][short name]
[value] rows — matching the mobile mockup. The sticky school bar becomes
scrollable short-name pills on mobile too. Adds a shortName() util.
Desktop layout is unchanged (display:contents dissolves the wrapper).
Validated the card mechanism and real content shapes (report-card cell,
badges, %+chip rows) via static previews at both widths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The compare chart squashed clustered schools into a thin band (y pinned
0-100) under an in-chart title + per-school legend that ate ~40% of a
300px card, leaving converging lines indistinguishable on phones.
- Auto-fit the y-axis to the data on all viewports (computeYBounds in
lib/utils: padded + min-span for percentages, symmetric around 0 for
progress, fitted for scores; negative pct-named trend metrics are not
zero-clamped).
- Distinct point style per school (circle/triangle/rect/rectRot/star)
as secondary encoding for convergence and colour-blindness.
- Mobile: drop in-chart title/legend/axis titles; add a chip row (colour
dot + name) that doubles as tap-to-focus — highlights one school's
line and dims the rest. Chart card 300px -> 340px, nearly all plot.
- Fix a latent colour mismatch: datasets were built from Object.entries
whose integer-like URN keys enumerate in ascending numeric order,
desyncing line colours from card colours; the chart now receives the
ordered school list.
- Union years across schools instead of taking the first school's.
- Extract PerformanceChart's matchMedia pattern into hooks/useIsMobile.
Unit tests for metricKind/computeYBounds; e2e journey covers the mobile
chips and focus toggle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live axe-core inventory found 13 failing fg/bg pairs (3.12:1 coral text/
fills, 4.0-4.5 teal near-misses, 2.7 gold badge, 1.9 chart-colour text).
All replacement values validated ≥4.5:1 against every background they
sit on:
- --accent-coral-dark deepened to #b04a2e and used for coral text roles
(nav active, back/map links, kickers, chips) and coral fills under
white text (btn-primary, phase tabs, section-nav compare, chart chips);
new --accent-coral-darker #9c3f26 for their hovers. Decorative coral
(pins, bars, borders, focus ring) keeps the brand #e07256.
- --accent-teal darkened to #296f6f (rankings values, metric rows,
ofsted grades, eyebrows all pass).
- Ofsted green #3c8c3c→#2f7a2f; off-token gold #b8920e→--accent-gold-text.
- Gender-split pink text #b45778→#a04a68; admissions tip numerals to a
3.8:1 muted brown (28px display text).
- New CHART_TEXT_COLORS: AA-dark counterparts of the Chart.js series
palette for compare-card values (swatch dots keep true series colour).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MOB-14: PerformanceChart and ComparisonChart both already configure
legend position 'top' — no change needed.
MOB-15: Compare's detailedTable is 774px wide inside an overflow-x:
auto wrapper. Add a right-edge mask-image fade at ≤640px so phone
users see the table extends past the viewport.
MOB-16: ComparisonView's Share button previously did clipboard-only.
Prefer navigator.share when available (iOS/Android native sheet) so
users can send straight to Messages / WhatsApp / Mail / etc. Fall
back to clipboard with the existing "Copied!" toast otherwise. User
cancellations swallow silently; only real errors trigger fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- rankings: hide Type/Action columns on mobile so metric value stays visible;
ensure filter selects and table wrapper stay within viewport
- school detail: add min-width:0 / max-width:100% containment so internal
overflow-x wrappers actually clip rather than pushing the page wider;
explicit line-height on Ofsted grade badges to fix glyph clipping
- compare: sticky first column on the Detailed Comparison table so the Year
labels remain visible while horizontally scrolling school columns
- search: shorten placeholder to "School name or postcode" so it fits mobile
input width
- globals: overflow-x:clip safety net on .main wrapper
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. Simpler home page: only search box on landing, no filter dropdowns
2. Advanced filters: hidden behind toggle on results page, auto-open if active
3. Per-school phase rendering: each row renders based on its own data
4. Taller 4-line rows with context line (type, age range, denomination, gender)
5. Result-scoped filters: dropdown values reflect current search results
6. Fix blank filter values: exclude empty strings and "Not applicable"
7. Rankings: Primary/Secondary phase tabs with phase-specific metrics
8. Compare: Primary/Secondary tabs with school counts and phase metrics
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses 28 issues identified in UX audit (P0–P3 severity):
P0 — Critical:
- Fix compare URL sharing: seed ComparisonContext from SSR initialData
when localStorage is empty, making /compare?urns=... links shareable
- Remove permanently broken "Avg. Scaled Score" column from school
detail historical data table
P1 — High priority:
- Add radius selector (0.5–10 mi) to postcode search in FilterBar
- Make Add to Compare a toggle (remove) on SchoolCards
- Hide hero title/description once a search is active
- Show school count + quick-search prompts on empty landing page
- Compare empty state opens in-page school search modal directly
- Remove URN from school detail header (irrelevant to end users)
- Move map above performance chart in school detail page
- Add ← Back navigation to school detail page
- Add sort controls to search results (RWM%, distance, A–Z)
- Show metric descriptions below metric selector
- Expand ComparisonToast to list school names with per-school remove
- Add progress score explainer (0 = national average) throughout
P2 — Medium:
- Remove console.log statements from ComparisonView
- Colour-code comparison school cards to match chart line colours
- Replace plain loading text with LoadingSkeleton in ComparisonView
- Rankings empty state uses shared EmptyState component
- Rankings year filter shows actual year e.g. "2023 (Latest)"
- Rankings subtitle shows top-N count
- Add View link alongside Add button in rankings table
- Remove placeholder Privacy Policy / Terms links from footer
- Replace untappable 10px info icons with visible metric hint text
- Show active filter chips in search results header
P3 — Polish:
- Remove redundant "Home" nav link (logo already links home)
- Add / and Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut to focus search input
- Add Share button to compare page (copies URL to clipboard)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added optgroup elements to organize metrics into logical categories:
- Expected Standard
- Higher Standard
- Progress Scores
- Average Scores
- Gender Performance
- Equity (Disadvantaged)
- School Context
- 3-Year Trends
Also added CSS styling for optgroup labels to match the design system.
Note: School names in rankings are already clickable links to school details.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add flex layout to schoolCard for proper content distribution
- Use flex: 1 on schoolMeta to fill available space
- Change margin-top to auto on latestValue to push to bottom
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added better UX and debugging for the comparison screen:
1. Loading state for chart section
- Shows "Loading comparison data..." when schools are selected
but data hasn't loaded yet
- Provides visual feedback to users
2. Enhanced debugging logs
- Log URNs being fetched
- Log API response status
- Log received comparison data
- Better error handling with null state on failure
3. Improved conditional rendering
- Chart shows when data is available
- Loading message shows when waiting for data
- Nothing shows when no schools selected
This helps diagnose any API issues and provides better user feedback
during data loading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Migrate from vanilla JavaScript SPA to Next.js 16 with App Router
- Add server-side rendering for all pages (Home, Compare, Rankings)
- Create individual school pages with dynamic routing (/school/[urn])
- Implement Chart.js and Leaflet map integrations
- Add comprehensive SEO with sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD
- Set up Docker multi-service architecture (PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Next.js)
- Update CI/CD pipeline to build both backend and frontend images
- Fix Dockerfile to include devDependencies for TypeScript compilation
- Add Jest testing configuration
- Implement performance optimizations (code splitting, caching)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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