[Findings](/findings/index.md) / UX-051

# Re-rendering the whole view on every save lost the reader's place

Fixed · medium severity · failure · Newsroom Design Lab

## What we saw

Every store write (a highlight, a note, a status) re-rendered the whole reading view and jumped the scroll position.

## Why it matters

A reader who highlights a sentence is thrown somewhere else in an 8,000-word article.

## The fix

Repaint only the parts that changed. Done in the article vault before publishing.

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Fixed |
| **Severity** | Medium |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [Newsroom Design Lab](/findings/?product=newsroom-design-lab), prototype |
| **Where** | newsroom-proto-article |
| **Problems** | [Unexpected movement](/findings/?problem=unexpected-movement) |
| **Visibility** | [Obvious](/findings/?visibility=obvious): every reader sees it, every time they reach that point |
| **Recommendation** | [Keep the UI still](/findings/?recommendation=keep-the-ui-still): nothing moves, appears or takes focus unless the reader asked for it; chrome that hides stays hidden until a deliberate gesture |
| **Area** | [Article page](/findings/?area=article) |
| **Breaks** | [Nothing moves that the reader did not move](/principles/index.md#ui-stays-still) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.1.0 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.1.1 |
| **Source** | [Design lab: what building it measured](/lab/index.md#what-building-the-lab-measured) |

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