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SURFACE.MOBILE.ONBOARDING.RESTOREDSummary
The Promise, reached by a reinstall that already holds Pro.
Raw wireframe
- .context/designs/mobile/onboarding/restored.html
Why it is drawn this way
Selling it to them again is the worst possible first impression. A restored
reinstall reaches onboarding holding the entitlement, so promise.tsx swaps all
three lines and removes the buy button rather than disabling it. That is why this
is its own file and not a locked state: the closed state vocabulary has a word
for the gate and no word for its opposite, and the CTA count differs.
The icon plate is bg-sunken, not a success tint. The app renders
ShieldCheck in COLOR.ink on the neutral plate. An earlier wireframe drew it
green on success-bg, which spends the one hue on a screen that is not about a
role — see two-roles.
"Restored from a previous install. Nothing else to do." The footnote is the whole point: there is no action left, and saying so stops someone looking for one.
Related
Sources
- .context/designs/mobile/onboarding/restored.html
- src/app/onboarding/promise.tsx — the isPro branch
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