astrolabe/docs/ux-second-pass.md

# UX second pass — batched council review

A running parking lot of small UX / interaction decisions deferred for a **batched
[`/council`](../.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md) review**, rather than gating each one the
moment it surfaces. Append quirks here as they come up; resolve them together in one pass,
record the resolution into the contract (`docs/architecture/09`+`10` and the relevant
`docs/spec/`), then delete the row.

## Open

- **Storage-full copy implies a per-tier budget, but quota is whole-origin** — the messages
  say "snippet storage is full" / "dataset storage is full" and tell the user to delete that
  entity's items, yet IndexedDB quota is shared across the whole origin. Per-tier framing is
  more _actionable_ (deleting the tier you're saving into does free space) but misstates the
  scope. Decide: keep the actionable per-tier framing, or switch to a whole-origin "Storage is
  full — free space (the Storage monitor shows what's using it)". Affects both
  `storageErrorNotification` and `entityStorageErrorNotification` in `services/storage-errors.ts`
  and the import-quota copy in `services/transfer.ts`.

## Deferred (not design debts, revisit on demand)

- **Drag-and-drop field assignment** — chips are click/keyboard-first by design; drag would
  be a progressive enhancement on top of the chooser model, not a replacement. Revisit if
  real usage asks for it (likely alongside Phase 4 faceting, where drag-to-shelf reads most
  naturally).

- **Theme Builder config editor stays a plain textarea** (decided 2026-06-13) — a second
  Monaco mount is heavy inside a modal for an occasional surface; the parse error is the
  feedback channel that matters. Revisit only if real usage asks for config completions.
  The gallery's per-card captions stand as the canvas charts' text alternative.