Compact Viz Proposals
UX research experiment, 2026-08-21 — round 3: WILDLY COMPACT always-on components. The same six delegates under a hard pixel budget: a ≤160px vertical rail, a ≤100px horizontal strip, or a ≤320×240 corner badge — never a destination page. All realtime with in-flight states; every user/steering prompt is a permanent one-click transcript jump marker. Mockups shown in situ beside a dimmed transcript column.
Screenshots are mid-simulation; open the raw HTML to watch each run. Provenance: glm52-a README orchestrator-written (delegate looped after completing its mockups); glm52-b ideas 1–2 repaired and idea 3 authored by a kimi/k3 substitute (details in slot READMEs).
kimi/k3 · k3-a — The minimap distilled — the whole session's shape in a rail, strip, or coin.
Micro Strata Rail — The minimap distilled to a 120px rail: 1px-per-turn semantic lanes, live head marker, micro context/budget gauges, verdict glyphs, and permanent clickable prompt chevrons.
Session Ribbon — A full-width 88px ribbon: context-cliff band over a live turn barcode over actor/event micro-lanes, with permanent prompt ticks and a fixed live-readout cluster.
Session Coin — A 300×220 corner coin: progress ring with fold/error/runaway notches, live context inner ring, orbit status dots for delegates/jobs, a center state glyph, and prompt dots that jump the transcript.
kimi/k3 · k3-b — What's causing what, right now — causal structure native to tiny footprints.
Trigger Rail — A 160px spine rail where episodes are rows that compress to slivers behind each compaction fold, non-adjacent causality draws as left-edge brackets, context pressure is a mercury gauge, and user prompts are permanent green rows that jump the transcript.
Causal Tape — A bottom-docked 100px tape: context-pressure hairline, permanent user-prompt diamond lane, actor tokens with spawn arcs, and a causal episode ribbon with a live why-now fuse — the whole session so far plus NOW in one strip.
Causality Badge — A 320×240 corner HUD: a delegate/job constellation (spawn/report/interrupt links) on the left, a trigger fuse burning down to the current action on the right, and a notch-marked progress bar below.
codex-personal/gpt-5.6-sol · gpt56-a — Tempo, stalls, latency, cost trajectory — in a ribbon, a rail, or a puck.
Pulse Ribbon — A 92px-tall session waveform with a growing live tail and a never-aggregated prompt jump rail.
Rhythm Spine — A 148px-wide vertical rhythm rail where waits become gaps and the current operation becomes a growing needle.
Tempo Puck — A corner-sized radial instrument combining whole-session rings with a live elapsed-time core.
codex-personal/gpt-5.6-sol · gpt56-b — The story compressed — chapter strata, a living sentence, and prompt pins.
Narrative Spine — A 156px narrative minimap rail that compresses the whole live session into chapter strata, one living sentence, and exact prompt jump pins.
Storyline Strip — A 96px horizontal story dock combining a three-line synopsis, proportional chapter ribbon, live attempt, and persistent prompt diamonds.
Story Stamp — A 312×232px live story stamp with a chapter stack, current-chapter seal, living sentence, change receipt, and exact prompt dots.
lunaroute/glm-5.2-vision · glm52-a — Pattern-native glyphs — tape, barcode, and growing icicle at companion size. (README authored by the orchestrator; see provenance note in slot README.)
Compact Event Tape Rail — The event tape turned on its side: a vertical glyph column where each turn is a ~12px-tall cell — kind, intensity, and anomaly state readable as a running pattern.
Compact Tool-Mix Timeline — The tool-mix heatmap compressed to a barcode strip: tool-type rows × time-bucket columns, cell intensity = call count, active bucket pulsing.
Compact Delegate Cost Matrix — The delegation icicle as a corner companion: the tree grows live, micro-ribbons stack density/token/duration per node, and a red ribbon marks the error branch the instant it fails.
lunaroute/glm-5.2-vision · glm52-b — Query, brush, and jump inside a matchbox. idea-1/2 by the glm delegate (minimally repaired — they arrived non-functional); idea-3 + README by a kimi/k3 substitute. Details in slot README.
Query-Rift (compact) — 160px vertical-rail turn atlas: one cell per turn (height = tool count, color = kind), filtered by composable query clauses/chips/facets with a draggable brush scoping a turn list.
Delegate Cascade (compact) — A full-width × 100px bottom timeline strip of delegate/job span bars under a compact lane tree — playback sweeps a turn counter, flashing in-flight nodes and bars.
Session Lens — A 312×232 corner-badge query instrument: an 8-lane canvas event field (prompts/assistant/tools/delegates/jobs/watches/compaction/failures) with permanent numbered prompt anchors — hover isolates a lane, click jumps the transcript, drag brushes a range.