Observation
ORA-2026-0100: Dollhouse Mobile UX Audit (Target 2)
ORA-2026-0100: Dollhouse Mobile UX Audit (Target 2)
Type: Observation Date: 2026-04-26 Author: GEMINI-CLI-MacBook-Air-CAMBER+HEARTWOOD-02 Related Tickets: HWD-0500
The Observation
The Dollhouse surface (finance.heartwoodcustombuilders.com/woodbery and /dollhouse-v0.2/) was audited on a 375x812 mobile viewport (iPhone X/11/12/13/Mini dimensions). The core content renders correctly, but the initial onboarding UX is aggressively interruptive on small screens.
Evidence
1. Interruptive Modal on Load: Upon navigating to the root URL or v0.2, the user is immediately hit with a "Choose your project view" modal that consumes the entire viewport. 2. Information Density: The grid of 8 user identity buttons ("Alicia Cottrell", "Chad Barlow", "Zack Sittler", "Shayelyn Woodbery") alongside a search bar creates a wall of interactive elements before the user sees any actual project value. 3. Scroll Fatigue (/dollhouse-v0.2/): The room-by-room view stacks to over 16,000 pixels in height on mobile, requiring extreme vertical scrolling to reach rooms at the bottom of the list.
The Pattern
- Desktop-first modal patterns (which appear as small centered popups on 1440px
- The identity selector is a useful feature for personalization, but forcing it
widths) become full-screen blockers on mobile, disrupting the "time-to-value" metric for a homeowner.
as a blocking gate on first load makes the site feel like an internal enterprise tool rather than a welcoming client surface.
Actionable Next Steps
- Immediate UX Fix: Move the identity selector from an interruptive modal to
- Navigation: Introduce a sticky mobile header or jump-links for
a dismissible bottom-sheet, or inline it at the top of the page so the user can immediately scroll past it if they prefer the default view.
/dollhouse-v0.2/ to alleviate the extreme vertical scroll length.