# Design Lock v02

## Once You’ve Had a Bichon · Personal Narrative successor

**Governing Issue:** #239
**Historical predecessor:** Issue #28
**Preserved prior candidate:** PR #285
**Primary grammar:** `memory-road-family-archive-v1`
**Status:** `DESIGN_LOCKED_FOR_PROTECTED_HUMAN_REVIEW`

## Reader job

Experience one continuous family memoir in which dogs, places, marriage, migration, grief, and care remain connected across time. Authentic photographs function as narrative evidence rather than decoration.

## Visual thesis

This is a **family archive presented as a road through memory**. It is not a breed guide, breeder promotion, scrapbook, dog-show page, or generic SharePlane article.

The presentation uses a quiet editorial frame, a chronological route, generous reading width, and large authentic photographs with restrained factual captions. The visual system should make time and movement legible without turning the memoir into an infographic.

## Canonical route spine

`Bald Knob → Japan → Melbach → St. Louis → Bald Knob → Sacramento`

The route is orientation, not a claim that every dog belongs to every stop.

## Composition

1. **Hero:** title, deck, author, protected-review state, and Sophie as the emotional hinge.
2. **Memory route:** six geographic stops with years only where owner-confirmed.
3. **Memoir chapters:** one continuous manuscript with a restrained sticky chapter rail on wide screens.
4. **Family photographs:** authentic images presented at meaningful narrative points.
5. **Reflection pauses:** a small number of high-emphasis lines earned by the prose.
6. **Reader Trust Stack:** photo evidence and provenance, lineage, author identity, lifecycle, and exact source access.

## Photography rules

- Authentic family photographs are evidence, not visual filler.
- The verified V1 photograph archive is part of the memoir’s narrative continuity, not merely historical provenance. Selected confirmed photographs from the V1 Emotional Architecture presentation must be carried forward into the successor chapters they document.
- Historical images must be placed **inside the memoir prose flow, adjacent to the paragraphs they document**. Copying image assets into the build, referencing them only through provenance, or appending a detached archive after the chapter prose does not satisfy this Design Lock.
- V1 carry-forward images used by the successor must be exact-byte local review assets under the successor route so hosted UAT proves the same visible candidate the owner is reviewing.
- Historical images should appear alongside the relevant life stage, dog, family transition, care routine, or present-day household. Do not flatten the V1 archive into a detached end gallery.
- New photographs and V1 photographs should work together as one chronology. Prefer continuity and factual relevance over novelty.
- No faux Polaroid frames, artificial film grain, sepia filters, torn-paper edges, paw prints, dog-bone iconography, or generated “memory” scenes.
- Do not crop away materially relevant content.
- Web derivatives may resize proportionally only.
- Captions remain factual and preserve uncertainty.
- Sophie’s existing verified historical images may be reused from the published predecessor.
- Blackie’s gravel-road visual is required in the Bald Knob chapter as owner-approved **interpretive memory art** and must remain explicitly labeled as an illustration, not a historical photograph.
- The two authentic Mindy photographs are required inside the Mindy and Smiley chapter. Their original JPEGs retain PR #285 and owner-confirmed authority; valid proportional hosted-review derivatives may be regenerated from those exact originals when an older derivative is corrupt or unusable.
- Five newly supplied source uploads are hash-bound as external photo authority and rendered through deterministic proportional review derivatives.
- All V1 carry-forward photographs must retain the historical Issue #28 photo authority and byte identity already governed by the preserved predecessor.
- Owner-selected V1 images `image(309).png`, `image(310).png`, `image(312).png`, and `image(322).png` are required carry-forward visuals even where individual dog identity is not confirmed. They may support only generic narrative jobs such as Bichon companionship, care, returning to love after grief, or the present household. Their captions must preserve identity uncertainty and they must never be relabeled as Peko, Sachi, Sophie, or another named dog without new owner authority.

## Color and typography

### Light
- archival warm paper
- charcoal ink
- muted oxblood accent
- restrained olive secondary
- low-contrast rules

### Dark
- deep warm ink background
- ivory text
- softened oxblood accent
- muted sage secondary

No external fonts. Use system sans for navigation and metadata and a native serif stack for memoir prose.

## Interaction posture

Static-first. No article-local theme control. No runtime dependencies. No carousel required. The shell owns theme behavior.

The only required reader interactions are ordinary navigation, source and provenance links, and SharePlane shell controls.

## Responsive behavior

- 1440px: sticky memory rail, wide editorial photography, 720 to 760px reading column.
- 768px: rail collapses into horizontal chapter index; photo pairs remain legible.
- 390px: single column; route becomes horizontally scrollable or wraps cleanly; portrait photography remains uncropped; no horizontal page overflow.

## Accessibility

- semantic heading order
- visible skip link
- descriptive alt text
- captions remain visible
- no meaning encoded by color alone
- minimum tap targets inherited from SharePlane shell
- no motion required
- print remains readable

## Reader Trust Stack

The successor must visibly project:

- exact manuscript source;
- photo evidence and uncertainty boundary;
- new-photo authority plus the historical V1 photo authority;
- Issue #239 authority;
- PR #285 predecessor candidate lineage;
- historical Issue #28 predecessor;
- Tony Malott author identity;
- protected Development lifecycle;
- production mutation count `0` until separately authorized.

## Explicit non-goals

- do not recreate the three historical design grammars; carrying their governed photographs forward is continuity, not a recreation of the old presentation;
- do not overwrite or cosmetically modernize the historical Issue #28 publication;
- do not add generated family-history imagery beyond the already owner-approved and explicitly labeled Blackie memory illustration;
- do not turn Jadorable Bichons credit into advertising;
- do not add breed-health or veterinary claims;
- do not infer exact dates or dog identities where Tony has preserved uncertainty.

## Acceptance

Design acceptance requires Tony’s hosted visual UAT. Machine browser work is mechanical only and cannot grant visual acceptance.