Eve Phase 8 interaction design brief · September 2026

Decision: adopted under Eve SOTA gap-closure initiative ledger. This brief governs Tasks 8.3–8.9.

This is a preregistered design constraint for later implementation, not a UI redesign. It consumes the Task 8.1 shipped-interface baseline, covers both admin web and customer mobile, and keeps Phase 8/G9 open.

Visual thesis#

Eve is a quiet, evidence-bearing layer inside the existing product: a compact right drawer over the dark admin operations shell and a focused sheet over the warm mobile experience. The current workspace remains visually dominant; hierarchy comes from type, spacing, rules, and state contrast rather than a field of interchangeable containers.

Default container pattern: semantic-rows-tables-and-open-sections. Card use is limited to discrete repeated items or framed tools.

Prohibited patterns

• generic-card-grid
• nested-card-stack
• dashboard-for-a-single-task
• ornamental-gradient-container

Content plan#

Each Eve surface explains the operator or member context first, then the connected capability state, the current turn and evidence, the next safe action, and recovery. Copy is short, concrete, and truthful about what is connected now.

Copy rules

• Use verb-first labels that name the immediate action.
• State the affected object, scope, and consequence before confirmation.
• Describe unsupported features as unavailable and name the actual fallback.
• Never label a local preview as active routing or buffered delivery as streaming.
• Avoid promotional, anthropomorphic, congratulatory, and filler copy in operational flows.

State vocabulary

• connected: Active
• degraded: Fallback
• unsupported: Unavailable
• idle: Inactive
• pending: Working
• cancelled: Stopped
• failed: Could not complete

Interaction thesis#

Eve enters from the object or action already in view, preserves the surrounding workspace, and exposes control beside the state it affects. Every transition remains understandable without animation, color, hover, or hidden context.

• Invocation: Attach contextual entry to the existing semantic row or action and carry only sanitized context into the drawer or sheet; stale, unknown, or blocked entry refuses in place.
• Steering: Keep long-turn controls adjacent to the active turn and show scope, activity, evidence, and side-effect state before a consequential action.
• Confirmation: Use one bounded confirmation region with explicit object, scope, consequence, confirm, and decline actions; generative intents render only inside that deterministic lane.
• Recovery: Retain transcript continuity, distinguish cancelled from failed or disconnected, prevent duplicate submission, and offer the smallest safe retry, resume, edit, or compensation path.
• Focus and input: Move focus into the opened surface deliberately, preserve keyboard and touch order, announce state changes, and restore focus to the exact invoking control on close.

Motion policy#

The default is static. Motion is admitted only when it communicates a meaningful state or affordance.

Allowed uses

• drawer-or-sheet-open-close-orientation
• progress-or-streaming-state-change
• confirmation-or-error-state-change

Prohibited uses

• decorative-loop
• ambient-floating-element
• staggered-card-reveal
• motion-only-status

Reduced motion: Remove nonessential transform and timing while retaining the same order, labels, status, focus behavior, and completion feedback.

Non-negotiable review guardrails#

Downstream task bindings#

Baseline coverage#

The brief is bound to eve.interface-baseline.v1 digest d2c739731b67c3e4cd31cbde6f48ecdd34dd9107860cd1d6605467f8445a1ff1 and all 20 canonical admin workspaces:

• dashboard
• inbox
• review
• policy
• trust-safety
• lilith
• egbe
• rights
• incidents
• editorial
• research-integrity
• personas
• models
• isis
• support
• privacy
• analytics
• admin-tools
• messaging
• tenant-console

Non-goals and limits#

• Task 8.2 makes no product UI or runtime behavior change.
• This brief does not choose the mobile transport or claim streaming, cancellation, persona routing, voice depth, or assistive-technology interoperability.
• This brief does not replace either client palette, navigation model, typography system, or primary workspace.
• This brief does not close Phase 8 or G9.

Only Task 8.2 closes. Phase 8 is open, G9 is open, and final reclassification remains owned by Task 18.1.

Source evidence#

Record digest: d91c81c7c3deb82f4c8720cd70532772689bc2e1c084a57e0e64a0ed87d9c618