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Real quests, broken buttons: how Phase C and N closed bb finance's behaviour loop
Phase C replaced mockQuests with a generator that reads real transaction history. Phase N found that the quest blocks were non-interactive labels and the streak's Check In button opened the wrong screen. Both sprints were necessary. Only together did they close the loop.
The accessibility gate that made stacking five motion effects into one PR survivable
Phase D of the Cursed Energy DNA landed sigil rotation, energy pulse, claim spark, level-up celebration, and streak milestones in a single PR alongside three other features. Accessibility review was a non-event — not because the PR was small, but because every motion effect owned its own gate.
Five animations, five accessibility gates: what Cursed Energy Phase D cost to ship correctly
Phase D of the Cursed Energy design system added five animated effects to bb finance: sigil rotation, energy pulse, claim spark, level-up celebration, and streak milestone overlays. Every one is gated by the SwiftUI Reduce Motion environment key. Gating from the start rather than retrofitting later cost extra environment reads on every animated view. What it bought was a WCAG 2.1 AA clean bill before any user encountered the animations.
I had the Accounts calendar scoped as one level. Mid-design I deepened it to three.
Phase K shipped a horizontally-scrollable daily-activity strip on the Accounts screen. Phase O was meant to replace it with a calendar — I had a compact, single-level surface already scoped. Mid-design I deepened the ask to full-screen plus day mode, and a back-nav regression in round-2 device QA explains why that was the right call.
The Accounts screen took four iterations. Each one bought fidelity by spending scope.
Sprint 2 shipped a SwiftUI list with CRUD. Phase K rebuilt it into a module stack with a trend chart and activity strip. Phase O turned the strip into a three-level calendar flow. Round-2 device QA on AnF found the back-nav bug that came with it.