Source: qdash / (the landing page) — c68 verdict-treatment variations
Five treatments of the landing's greeting — the v2 "5 things need attention" sentence didn't land. Each variation renders verdict + queue together against the same Meridian Monday story (secrets.yaml finding · sandbox config risk · egress decision · shadow install · adapter error), because the two are one design: what the sentence says determines what the rows must repeat. React to pixels.
Grouped counts, not a sentence
The flat "5 things" count equates a critical finding with an adapter hiccup. Group by family instead: the verdict is a short judgment plus toned family chips (clickable filters), and the enumerating sentence disappears — the queue already says it.
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The worst thing is the headline
Newspaper pattern: don't count the news, print it. The most severe item becomes the hero — concrete, immediately actionable — and everything else compresses to one "and 4 more" line that expands into the queue. Zero abstraction between login and the thing that matters most.
The queue is the greeting
No verdict layer at all. If the queue is well-ranked, a sentence about it is double-speak — the inbox pattern: a slim status line (day, count, what's new), then the work itself. The calmest treatment, and the one that trusts the queue most.
Act · Decide · Review
Group by the verb, not the noun — the security engineer's triage loop. The verdict is three toned numbers that promise a workflow: what can't wait, what's blocked on your judgment, what should be looked at this week. Urgency lives in the grouping, so individual rows can calm down.
Since Friday
Time-anchored verdict: the daily driver's real question isn't "how many things?" but "what changed since I last looked?" The verdict separates new from aging — the aging clause is the conscience of the page (nothing quietly rots) — and queue rows carry NEW / AGING badges instead of re-stating severity.
Since Friday: 3 new items — and 1 aging unresolved for 3 weeks.
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Comparison notes
- 1 Grouped counts — keeps a verdict layer but stops pretending five unequal things sum; chips double as filters.
- 2 Worst-thing-first — strongest "greeting" feel; risks burying item #2 when two things are genuinely urgent.
- 3 Queue-as-greeting — least chrome, most trust in ranking; the all-clear state needs its own design (there's no verdict line to go green).
- 4 Act·Decide·Review — the verbs match Findings' triage workflow, so the landing and the worklist speak one language; costs vertical space.
- 5 Since-Friday — the delta framing from ideas-round-1; "aging" gives long-ignored items a voice, which counting treatments never do.
- All five keep the queue as a strict projection of Findings — no treatment adds landing-side triage.