Design system
Patterns
Compositions that recur across this site without being components. Each one says what it is, where it lives, and why it stayed that way.
01
The toast
Drawn inside ProfileCopy.tsx, in code, rather than as a canvas node. A toast that exists on the canvas is a frame someone has to remember to keep hidden. It is drawn by the override that triggers it, and returns untouched under useIsStaticRenderer() so it never appears in a screenshot.
lives in ProfileCopy.tsx · ships on /profile/connections
02
Dock magnification
Hovering a dock icon takes it from 56 to 94px, turns on its dot and its tooltip, gives it a per-icon glow colour, and falls its neighbours off through 52, 48, 44. Eight variants of one component, driven by onMouseEnter firing SET_VARIANT by id.
lives in Dock + Dock Icon · ships site-wide
03
The card family
Four cards sharing one grammar: image or icon, title, meta, hairline. Card Archive carries 69 instances on its own. The fourth is the honest one, and it is the reason this entry is here at all.
Card Note has no instances, while the real note cards are hand-built inside two separate collection lists
04
The Human / .md switch
Every page has a machine-readable twin at /machine/:slug, driven by a CMS collection and a per-page pair of link controls. The switch in the nav is two links wearing one link style, so the active side resolves from the URL rather than from state.
lives in Navigation · ships site-wide
05
The tab band
A full-width strip directly under the nav: a tabs row plus a 1px pinstripe. Sticky at 94, which is the nav sticking at 22 plus its own 72px height. The band is full width while its contents share the 1440 measure, so the rule crosses the viewport and the tabs line up with the page.
lives on /profile and /system · four pages each
06
The notification rail
A fixed, full-width rail whose inner measure is capped at 1440. Without that inner cap the notification pins to the window edge rather than to the content column, and drifts away from the nav above 1440.
lives on every page as a fixed child of the ground frame
07
The ruler chrome
CanvasRulers runs fixed at 22px on all sixteen pages with pointerEvents none, so the page reads as a canvas without the strips ever intercepting a click. Guides are held per page in a module-level Map keyed by pathname, because Framer SPA navigation remounts the component.
lives in CanvasRulers.tsx · ships site-wide
08
The row grammar
A 38px icon box beside a stacked title, meta label and description, with one hairline per row and no gap between them. The same row carries a connection, an activity entry and a resume line without changing shape.
lives on /profile/connections and /profile/activity