Findings / UX-053
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OpenLowGapNewsroom Design Lab
What we saw
The findability prototype searches a 98 KB term index; results are cards with no matching text.
Why it matters
A reader cannot see why a result matched, so cannot judge it before opening.
The fix
Snippets from the markdown twins, within a size budget, or computed on a site page rather than in the vault.
The record
| Status | Open |
| Severity | Low |
| Kind | Gap: something the reader needs is not there |
| Product | Newsroom Design Lab, prototype |
| Where | newsroom-proto-find |
| Problems | Missing signal |
| Visibility | Subtle: felt more than seen: it costs attention or trust, but is not noticed as a bug |
| Recommendation | Show it up front: put the signal the reader decides by (length, author, short version, real numbers) where they look first |
| Area | Findability |
| Breaks | Say how long, and what kind, before the reader commits |
| Observed | 2026-10-11, v0.1.1 |
| Last checked | 2026-10-11, v0.1.1 |
| Source | Design lab: what building it measured |
| Prototype | Findability, route search, in three directions |
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