Checkpoint 1 · Section headers

Cluster card section headers — pick

Today's cluster card next to a proposed redesign of its section headers — read why, then pick.

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Today

What the card looks like right now

Real screenshots from the app today. Notice the first section never gets its own label — the card's instruction line stands in for it.
makan's card: the instruction line, no Forms section
makan's card: the instruction line, no Forms section (makan has none today)
makan's card, scrolled: the Challenge section's label
makan's card, scrolled: the Challenge section's label
dalam's card: the instruction line doing double duty as the first section's heading
dalam's card: the instruction line doing double duty as the first section's heading
dalam's card, scrolled: the Forms label appears here
dalam's card, scrolled: the Forms label appears here, once there's more than one section
dalam's card, scrolled further: the Related label
dalam's card, scrolled further: the Related label
dalam's card, scrolled further: the Challenge label
dalam's card, scrolled further: the Challenge label
dalam's card, finished: the end-state summary
dalam's card, finished: the end-state summary — same three labels, a different look
Proposed

What a redesign would look like

The same card, redesigned: every section opens the same way — a name, a count, and one sentence saying why these items belong together.

makan has no forms of its own yet, so its Forms section below borrows two real forms from another word (bagi) just to show the shape — everything else here is makan's own real data.

Cluster 3 of 20 reviewed
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makan
🌱 Seed   A1
Tap an item to learn it; check it off when you know it.
Forms 2 of 7 reviewed
How makan changes with prefixes and suffixes
Word BASE-an
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bagian
Learn🔊
••••
✓
Word di-BASE
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dibagi
Learn🔊
••••
✓
Related 0 of 5 reviewed
Phrases and compounds built on makan
Phrase
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makan pagi +
Learn🔊
••••
✓
Phrase
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rumah makan +
Learn🔊
••••
✓
Challenge 1 of 8 reviewed
Words to tell apart from makan: similar, opposite, informal
Word ≈ similar
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bersantap +
Learn🔊
••••
✓
Word ↔ opposite
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berpuasa +
Learn🔊
••••
✓
End state — same header, reused
Forms7 of 7 reviewed
Related7 of 7 reviewed
Challenge7 of 7 reviewed
Why

Why this shape

What the redesign is trying to fix, in plain terms.
1
Each part of the card has one job and one look — an instruction is never dressed up as a heading.
2
Bigger and bolder means "more important" — small capital letters everywhere flattens everything to the same level.
3
A line and a number mark every section boundary, because knowing you finished one part and started another matters.
4
The card uses one word for "done" — "reviewed" — everywhere, instead of switching between different words.
5
Every section says, in one plain sentence, why its items are grouped together.
Your picks

Your picks

Three quick decisions, plus room for anything else.
1
SH — the section header as drawn
This is the actual redesign shown above. If it needs changes, use the note box below the buttons to say what.
Decided by Frank
2
PL — the type pill
Decides whether "Cluster" (today's word) or "Family" (a plainer word) shows on every card.
Decided by Frank
3
IN — the instruction line
Decides where new learners are told what to do.
Decided by Frank
4
CM — anything else about the card
Anything else about the card, good or bad.