Development Review
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Title:

Holomovement App — Beta Launch Prep & Feature Review

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Holomovement App Ecosystem

Client:

Holomovement

Meeting Date:
March 30, 2026
Next Meeting Date:
April 6, 2026
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Michael Shaun Conaway
James Redenbaugh
Hera Rose
Mariko Pitts
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Meeting Summary

🗺️ App Status & Beta Readiness

The team gathered for a focused review of the Holomovement app ahead of inviting the broader core team in for testing. The overarching goal is to have all basic functions ready to go within the week, with a first tier of external users joining around the week of the 6th (52:06). Michael Shaun Conaway framed the priority clearly: thorough internal testing now, a full UI/UX review in April, and everything polished for real use by the beginning of May.

James Redenbaugh confirmed that profile creation, profile editing, and recreation flows are all working. Active work during the call was focused on the Holon page — specifically getting the wheel of faces rendering in an arc, surfacing domain icons correctly, and improving the My Holons view to match the rest of the UI (04:14).

[technology="Community Facilitation Tools"]

🔧 Holon Page & UX Improvements

Several UX issues and enhancement ideas were surfaced during live testing:

  • Empty state on My Holons — Hera Rose discovered her new test account showed nothing in My Holons, which turned out to simply be that the account had no Holon memberships yet. James will add a helpful empty-state message and, below it, a grid showing all existing Holons so new users immediately feel the potential of the space rather than hitting a dead end (21:50).
  • Holon content fields — The team agreed to add a Mission field and Gifts/Needs fields to Holon profiles (18:40). The Needs field in particular could serve as a compelling reason for someone to request joining — e.g., seeing "we need a graphic designer" and self-identifying.
  • Holon center label — The center of the arc/circle for Holons with few members will display the word "Purpose" (18:01).
  • Join request flow — Currently clicking Join shows "coming soon." James confirmed this is easy to activate and will do so (19:47).
  • Test Holons and accounts — All test Holons and duplicate test accounts need to be removed before the team-wide invite goes out (06:47).

[technology="Intelligent Matching Algorithms"]

📊 Assessment Tool — Simplifying the Spider Graph

Michael Shaun Conaway walked through the current multi-axis spider graph assessment and flagged that it's essentially unreadable without a tutorial (10:54). With 19 items across overlapping axes (purple and green representing opposite poles), even a well-intentioned user would have no idea what their result means. The verdict: the spider graph is great eye candy but doesn't deliver snapshot value.

James confirmed the simplified one-question assessment with a triangulation output is the right path forward and won't use this spider graph format at all. He committed to having a working prototype ready the following day for the team to test (14:58). Michael also flagged a standing to-do: writing one-page descriptive blurbs for each assessment area so the AI can return more robust, grounded responses to user queries. A Google Doc will serve as the working format for now (57:04).

[technology="Assessment Systems"]

📍 Profile Page Details

A few specific profile-level UX items came up during live review:

  • Location map tooltip — The map snippet on profiles is a nice touch, but hovering or clicking it does nothing. The team agreed it should show a tooltip with the actual location name (23:11).
  • Profile edit mode link bug — Clicking any icon while in edit mode navigates away and loses unsaved changes. James will disable links while edit mode is active (27:08).
  • Duplicate summary boxes — Two boxes appear in certain fields on older profiles that were created outside the full onboarding flow. James explained this is expected behavior — the top box is AI-generated from the onboarding answers, and the bottom is editable. Helper text will clarify this.
  • Profile image edit icon — Hard to spot on light backgrounds; James will make it more prominent (30:58).
  • Skills rating feature — James demoed a new skills section where users can rate themselves and get visual bar indicators on their profile (44:04).
  • Banner image regeneration — Clicking the banner icon opens a regeneration flow powered by Claude [tag="claude"] that takes updated profile content into account when producing a new image. A rollover tooltip saying "replace your banner" will be added so users understand what the icon does (32:25).

🧭 Onboarding Strategy — Daily Feature Drip

Rather than flooding the core team with everything at once, Mariko Pitts proposed a structured daily drip: invite team members to test one feature per day, starting with profile creation (16:11). The rationale is both pedagogical and diagnostic — if someone can't create a profile on their own, that's critical signal. No hand-holding; they need to be able to do it themselves.

The sequence:

  1. Today — Send email inviting core team to create their profile
  2. Tomorrow — Assessment prototype available to test
  3. Following days — Holons, map, matching features rolled out one at a time

Hera will draft and send the initial profile creation email and coordinate follow-up to make sure everyone actually tests within the day (32:53).

Account Cleanup Plan

The team worked through a nuanced approach to cleaning up existing test accounts:

  • Team members who used their real email and put real effort into their profile (e.g., Jill) will keep their accounts
  • Those using backup/test emails will be asked to note which account to keep and which to delete
  • James added a "Profile Creation" link directly in the member modal, so any logged-in user can re-run the full onboarding flow and update their profile without starting from scratch (42:31). Anything previously answered won't be overwritten unless explicitly changed — a clean solution that avoids mass deletions.
  • The team will send an urgent heads-up asking anyone with thoughtful answers in their current profile to copy them out before the wipe window

🌐 Homepage & Website Updates

Michael Shaun Conaway shared detailed feedback on the homepage animation sequence in Slack and walked through the key notes on the call:

  • Background color — Should match the app's green: #042025 (45:35)
  • Animation circles — The original website had additional concentric circle/Holomovement logo elements layered into the animation; these should be reintroduced to add visual depth and design coherence (46:35)
  • Scroll sequence fluidity — Currently two lines of type appear simultaneously during scroll; there should be a gap/pause between them for a cleaner reveal. James will add spacing between the phrases (47:57).
  • Auto-scroll — Users who don't scroll manually should still experience the full sequence. An automatic slow scroll should cycle through all phrases and transition to the full homepage — critical for people who land and don't interact (49:23).
  • End-state layout — "A Living Ecosystem for Conscious Impact" should replace the hero phrase in the same position, transitioning cleanly with the tiles visible underneath, and the longer subtitle copy removed (48:15).
  • Mobile — Type is far too large on mobile; needs to scale down significantly. Ivan is already working on the page and James will build on that (51:09).
  • Logo on hero — The team agreed to use just the icon/symbol rather than the full wordmark, since the name is already clear from context (51:48).
  • CTA button — The primary (and only) button on the homepage should say something like "Join the App" or "Launch the App" — not "Join the Synergist" (53:38).
  • Map on homepage — The new dynamic map James built should be the hero element of the homepage, with a card preview on click that leads to login/profile creation for non-members (52:57).

Michael noted this is live on the website and flagged it as a priority to get cleaned up quickly (51:06). James will notify Michael when it's ready for another review pass.

[technology="Parametric Geometric Interfaces"]

🔗 Matchmaking System

James outlined the architecture for the upcoming matching system (01:01:36). Rather than agentic AI matching, the initial version will rely on tag-based alignment scoring:

  • Each profile generates seeking tagsoffering tags, domain tags, and focus area tags through the onboarding flow
  • A periodic function will compare every profile against every other, producing an alignment score based on complementary seeking/offering tags and overlapping domains
  • The directory view will then display highest-alignment profiles larger and to the left, decreasing by alignment to the right

This is the same data infrastructure that will power the matching grid view already designed in Figma — the grid showing your matched profiles above the full Living Network view. Sean is actively working on this now (01:00:56). The assessment data will also feed into this system, making the new single-question assessment a dependency for full matchmaking.

[technology="Directory Systems"]

🎤 Wave Event Preparation

Michael Shaun Conaway shared his vision for the upcoming Monday wave event: participants should leave the activation day already inside at least one Holon (58:30). The app becomes the vessel for their onward journey — not just a demo, but a live tool they're entering together.

Mariko Pitts asked James to be ready to lead presentations on the app at the event, establishing him as the lead developer and primary technical voice (59:29). James confirmed he's up for it. The team also discussed producing a one-to-two minute intro video of the ecosystem to play during the event (01:00:07). In May, once the wave has happened and things settle, the team will begin scoping features for a June release.

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Action Items

James Redenbaugh

  • Finish Holon page updates (arc of faces, domain icons, image fixes) by end of day (05:03)
  • Add empty-state message and full Holon grid to My Holons tab for new members (21:50)
  • Add Mission and Gifts/Needs fields to Holon creation (18:40)
  • Enable the Holon join request feature (19:47)
  • Activate tooltip on profile location map showing location name on hover (23:11)
  • Disable link navigation while profile edit mode is active (27:08)
  • Make profile image edit icon more visually prominent (30:58)
  • Add rollover tooltip to banner image regeneration icon (32:25)
  • Strikethrough completed items on the shared testing list so Hera knows what's been resolved (30:25)
  • Produce working prototype of simplified one-question assessment with triangulation output by tomorrow (14:58)
  • Implement homepage updates: background color #042025, restore animation circle elements, add gap between scroll phrases, auto-scroll, mobile type sizing, icon-only logo, updated CTA button (44:35)
  • Notify Michael when homepage is ready for review
  • Coordinate with Ivan on homepage development and build on his progress (51:16)
  • Add profile creation link to member modal ✅ (done during call) (42:31)
  • Add option in edit flow for users to re-run full profile creation process (39:12)
  • Remove all test accounts and test Holons before team-wide invite goes out (06:47)
  • Lead app presentation and walkthrough at the upcoming wave event (01:00:06)

Hera Rose

  • Do a full fresh-account testing pass of the app after the call and log any issues (15:15)
  • Draft and send profile creation email to core team today — one clear action only (32:53)
  • Coordinate daily feature testing drip with the core team and track completion each day (16:11)
  • Ask team members to identify which accounts to keep and which to delete; compile list for James (41:52)

Mariko Pitts

  • Send urgent message to WhatsApp group and email asking team to back up any thoughtful profile content before account cleanup (35:44)
  • Complete her own profile update using profile creation flow after the call and report any issues to James (43:08)
  • Coordinate logistics and staging for James's app presentation at the wave event (59:29)

Michael Shaun Conaway

  • Write one-page descriptive blurbs for each assessment area for AI response enrichment — pull names from the app and compile in a Google Doc (56:40)
  • Review homepage once James signals it's ready for another pass
  • Send through notes/priorities for next week's call if unable to attend from Lisbon (57:22)
Relevant Initiatives

Directory System Enhancement

Priority: 
Very High
Size: 
L
Planning Stage

Membership Authentication System

Priority: 
Very High
Size: 
XL
Planning Stage

Assessment Development

Priority: 
Very High
Size: 
Planning Stage

Holon Page Design & Implementation

Priority: 
High
Size: 
M
Creation Stage

About Page Redesign

Priority: 
High
Size: 
M
Completing

3D Globe Visualization System

Priority: 
High
Size: 
M
Planning Stage

On-Demand Matching System

Priority: 
Very High
Size: 
M
Planning Stage
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