Squamish Nation Constitution Experience

Concept prototypes

Six ways of building the section experience, each one solving depth and transparency differently. They share the same content, so what is being compared is the interaction, not the writing. Everything is greyscale on purpose, visual design comes later.

The Prototypes

  1. Prototype 1

    Parallel Streams (Annotated)

    Two scrolling columns. The narrow one is a minimap of the whole draft; the wide one carries the plain-language reading. Clicking into the minimap swaps which is which.

  2. Prototype 2

    Parallel Streams (Enriched)

    The same two columns, with the reading side rewritten as an article rather than a field of cards. One anchored callout per section, pinned to the right, with a single line drawn to the draft.

  3. Prototype 3

    Integrated and enriched

    Full-height tabs down each side. Opening one slides it across and lays the section out like a magazine — the draft text set large, with the plain-language reading around it.

  4. Prototype 4

    Spatial Exploration

    A space of cards you move around in any direction, clustered by section. Opening a card brings up the draft text, an explanation, or a video slot. The draft-text card is always the most prominent one in its cluster.

  5. Prototype 5

    Wayfinding

    The document shape, signposted. A contents rail that always says where you are, a reading column with plain-language notes in the margin, and the draft text running in a minimap at the corner that opens into the whole thing.

  6. Prototype 6

    Running Tabs

    A tab strip across the top naming every section, which fills in as you work through the document — a check appears once you have had your say. The draft text sits in the reading column itself, behind headings that quote it.

A note on content

The draft text is pulled from the first draft for review, dated 13 March 2026: 12 sections, 53 numbered provisions, 184 addressable blocks in total.

Everything else is placeholder and marked as such. The plain-language writing, the clause notes, the audio and every image and video slot are stand-ins for content that comes from Point Blank and the Nation. Nothing here should be read as a summary of what the Constitution says.

No Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim has been written by us. The draft says its sníchim sections arrive in a later version, and until they do there is none to show.

Typeface check

Each of these exercises a different combining mark. If any of them renders as a box, a dotted circle, or a bare letter with the mark missing, the typeface is wrong and has to change before the brand face is chosen, not after. Worth looking at on the device this gets reviewed on.