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Week 08 - Jul 6-12, 2026

Focus: Review hold and navigation audit re-evaluation

Current status

Week 08 was a deliberate implementation hold. Review on PR #894 changed the product trade-off: Printer and Encryption were already available before wallet loading, while another permanent Home item would add attention cost for every wallet visit.

I did not turn that review into a replacement PR just to keep the contribution count moving. The useful audit result was a clearer standard: screen fit and menu depth were not enough to justify another choice.

I went back through the navigation method used in the June audit. It measured depth, item count, touch targets, Back paths, and button effort, but it did not fully examine:

  • whether a choice matched the user's goal;
  • whether common and specialist actions had equal prominence;
  • whether labels predicted the next state; or
  • whether units and constraints were visible before commit.

The unsupported nine-item pass rule also needed to be removed. PR #894 showed why: a menu row could fit while still imposing the wrong attention cost.

This re-evaluation identified three areas for a source-verified comparison: the wallet-summary handoff after mnemonic work, the input-method taxonomy in Load Mnemonic, and missing context in numeric settings. It did not authorize implementation.

Why the pause mattered

A useful follow-up needs a clear audit finding and evidence from constrained device layouts. Holding implementation left room to verify the three candidate areas instead of opening another weakly connected patch.