Canvas experience: design sampler

Keep

• The dominant returning-attendee route and explicit five-record maintenance explanation.
• Plain task wording and reader links that explicitly connect slides, recording, notes, feedback and opening outside the frame.

Fix next

• Flatten the attendee panel into a compact search-and-session list so actual sessions appear immediately below the introduction and remain visible before secondary doors on phones.
• Replace the tall framed attendee panel and stacked phone chrome with a compact recent-session list and a short task-navigation row.

Keep

• Three plain-language doors paired with chronological sessions and direct material actions.
• Explicit Slides and Recording actions, a compact phone header, and a calendar that separates month-only entries from dated sessions.

Fix next

• Compact session rows by moving presenter detail to the session page, retaining the title, date, series and direct material actions.
• Compress home-row metadata by reducing repeated presenter and badge detail so long titles consume fewer lines in the Canvas frame.

Keep

• Session-level Overview, Slides, Recording, Notes and Links tabs keep related materials together.
• Three clear audience doors followed immediately by recent sessions, with richer filters deferred until browsing or searching.

Fix next

• Replace repeated material labels beside the Slides action with a compact treatment that leaves laptop session titles enough room to identify the event.
• Rework the reader rail so it contains useful slide contents or releases its width to the deck instead of reserving a mostly empty column.

Keep

• Compact session rows and a reader that shows multiple bounded slides within the laptop viewport.
• Compact session rows with direct material actions, plus a session page that exposes all seven materials inside the laptop Canvas frame.

Fix next

• Restore the omitted calendar capability using the same event records, keeping the compact index as the primary laptop entry.
• Restore the retained calendar and optional pathway routes within the existing compact navigation.

Keep

• Expandable modules provide a distinct, understandable way to group sessions and expose their materials.
• Collapsible session groups and a concise materials outline provide meaningful structural variety while keeping the record model clear.

Fix next

• Combine the header, breadcrumb and tab treatment to bring the first session materially higher without shrinking the content.
• Preserve the typed query in navigation history before opening a live suggestion so Back returns to the remembered-word search.

Keep

• Serif publication typography, restrained gold numbering and small, high-contrast figures that work without scripts.
• The serif publication typography and high-contrast figure treatment give converted slides a credible reading edition.

Fix next

• Consolidate the reader's repeated title, slide-position and navigation strips into a quieter compact toolbar.
• Consolidate the repeated slide framing and navigation bands to retain the editorial typography with less visual and vertical overhead.

Keep

• Compact event rows with consistently aligned material actions and restrained Centre-pink selection markers.
• The compact navy identity bar and selective pink marker make the current material easy to identify.

Fix next

• Replace fixed desktop slide aspect ratios with content-sized sections so short slides stop occupying large empty panels.
• Replace the reader's desktop 16:9 section proportions with content-driven heights so short slides stop creating large empty panels.

Keep

• Compact training comparisons and recognisable material tags that combine colour, icons and text.
• The restrained material-kind colours, thumbnail contents and well-composed feedback and unavailable panels.

Fix next

• Remove the enhanced reader's fixed minimum slide height and use the content-sized proportions already demonstrated by its scripts-off reader.
• Remove the enhanced reader's fixed minimum slide height so sparse slides use content-sized publication sections on laptops.

Keep

• Content-sized numbered reader sections and the efficient desktop event table.
• The aligned laptop event table and content-sized, numbered reader sections make unusually good use of the available height.

Fix next

• Increase the smallest utility text and reader-link targets while retaining the compact grid.
• Increase and simplify secondary labels and navigation text, retaining the compact layout while eliminating cramped capitals and broken phone metadata labels.

Keep

• Clear grouping of sessions, training and team help, with approachable labels and generous controls.
• The clearly labelled sky, sage and sand groups distinguish sessions, training and team help without large headings.

Fix next

• Simplify the nested tinted containers and their padding to recover space and give the main content stronger visual priority.
• Flatten the nested panel structure so colour groups content without adding a separate padded card around every row and control area.