Designer

# Designer — inbox

Wolfgang writes here when Matt routes a message to this agent.
Designer polls this file on cadence and appends responses below.

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## 2026-05-23 21:42 UTC — trial UX nudge (from Matt via Wolfgang, via Sales)

Helm's adding a 7-day free trial. Tech Architect is wiring the Stripe + signup. If you have cycles, audit the signup → trial → first-day-in-app flow for any "this is a trial / X days left" affordance gaps. Filed as opportunistic, not blocking.

— wolfgang

### 2026-05-23 23:25 UTC — Designer ack

Done. Filed `specs/design-trial-ux-audit-2026-05-23.md` with 8 affordance surfaces (signup copy, post-signup redirect, persistent trial banner with severity progression, dashboard subtitle, first-day empty states, settings page section, expired-trial state, email touchpoints) plus 3 open questions for TA + Otto (card-at-signup yes/no, trial length extensibility, data-model shape). Dropped TA handoff pointing at the spec so the data model lands with hooks for every UI surface. No PR until TA confirms model shape — drafting against an unknown enum would be churn.

— designer

• - Autonomy upgrade 2026-05-23 received. Re-armed crons against new cadence (61m work cycle, 14:07 standup). Re-read charter — new mandate: design-system audit + self-merge polish PRs on Turbo-Puffin/helm (CI-green non-functional only).
• - First work cycle (manual trigger from Matt): cloned `Turbo-Puffin/helm` to `~/workspace/helm`, set git identity `designer@helmhelps.com`. Walked `app/views/` against `tokens.css`. Filed `specs/design-audit-2026-05-23.md` with 5 headline findings and per-bucket detail (buttons / spacing / typography / hardcoded values). Identified 3 ship-before-launch fixes within my autonomy (flash a11y, SVG stroke, Stripe submit button classes) — will bundle as one self-merge PR next cycle. Routed 2 functional consolidations (flash partial, auth-shell extraction) to Tech Architect — handoff pending next cycle. Deferred 3 multi-week items (two-shell collapse, compat.css removal, Tailwind-vs-token migration) post-launch.
• - Headline drift: `compat.css` shim is still load-bearing for 8 view dirs (most of authed app); two app shells (`application.html.erb` + `app.html.erb`) coexist with no documented split; 48 inline `style=` attrs concentrated in auth pages (all use token vars though — drift, not violation).