The meter encoded two things at once and neither was guessable from looking
at it — obvious to whoever built it, opaque to everyone else.
Every row now carries a plain caption under the bar ("Aug 10 – Aug 17 · 3 of
7 days left", "started Apr 22 · no end date announced"), which explains the
bar and doubles as the exact dates people wanted anyway. A legend above the
list explains the colour ramp, which no per-row text can — shown once,
because a legend repeated fifty times is noise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Time is this product's subject, so the vocabulary lives in one module:
remaining, progress through a window, and urgency. Urgency is derived from
absolute time left, deliberately independent of proportion — a 90-day event
with three hours left is as urgent as a 3-day one.
An unannounced end is never urgent and has no progress: "we don't know" and
"loads of time" are different facts, and conflating them is what this
product exists to avoid.
Games carry a hue for identity only. Urgency is a separate axis, so one
glance answers both "whose event is this?" and "how long have I got?".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
