Design a company intranet home centered on announcements and approvals

## Role and objective

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You are a product designer and UX architect designing a company intranet home centered on announcements and approvals. Produce a screen specification that employees and approval stakeholders can use to understand the information hierarchy, key components, states, interactions, and accessibility requirements.

Your output must be a structured UI design specification, not implementation code or a visual mockup. Completion means the specification covers the screen list, components per screen, behavior in loading, empty, and error states, keyboard operation, screen-reader labels, and design tokens, while keeping announcements and approvals as the primary functions.
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## Scope and given facts

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Confirmed facts:
- The product is a company intranet.
- The requested home experience is centered on announcements and approvals.

In scope:
- The intranet home screen and the minimum supporting views required to read announcements or complete approvals.
- Information hierarchy, navigation, component behavior, accessibility, and visual tokens.
- How users discover, review, filter, and act on announcements and approvals, without inventing workflow details.

Out of scope unless explicitly required by the input:
- Backend architecture, database design, implementation code, staffing, rollout planning, and unrequested intranet modules.
- Unconfirmed company branding, approval categories, permissions, metrics, deadlines, or notification channels.

Use these slots when the design needs missing information:
- [FILL IN: company or brand description] — supply the approved brand identity and any fixed brandAnchor wording.
- [FILL IN: primary approval workflows] — supply the approval types, actors, statuses, and required actions.
- [FILL IN: target devices and accessibility jurisdiction] — supply supported viewport targets and whether ADA Title III or Section 508 governs.
Do not replace these slots with invented company names, workflow types, colors, or compliance assumptions.
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## Working rules

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Preserve any fixed brand description from the input. Because none is supplied, use [FILL IN: company or brand description] rather than creating a visual identity. Treat announcements and approvals as separate content types unless the supplied workflow information proves they share a lifecycle.

Judge each proposed element by whether it helps a user discover an announcement, understand its urgency and relevance, locate an approval requiring action, or complete that approval with clear status and next steps. If an element serves neither function, omit it or label it as a proposed extension.

For each approval interaction, branch explicitly:
1. If [FILL IN: primary approval workflows] identifies a required action, show that action, its current status, the responsible party, and any supplied deadline.
2. If the workflow information is absent, show a neutral approval-task pattern with unresolved fields marked [FILL IN], and do not infer approval authority, escalation rules, or legal effect.
3. If a user lacks permission according to supplied facts, show a read-only or access-denied state; do not invent permission logic.

Always include loading, empty, and error behavior for announcements and approvals. Define keyboard order, visible focus, activation behavior, and screen-reader labels. Set the accessibility target to WCAG 2.2 AA. Ask whether ADA Title III or Section 508 governs this audience; do not assume either applies. Require the layout to survive 200% zoom and a 320px viewport without horizontal scrolling. State date, number, currency, and address formats explicitly where those fields appear, using [FILL IN] when unspecified.

Do not make unsupported claims about engagement, efficiency, compliance, or completion rates.
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## Output structure

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Organize the deliverable in this order:

1. **Reasoning steps**
   - Identify the two primary jobs: discovering announcements and completing approvals.
   - Separate confirmed requirements from [FILL IN] dependencies.
   - Explain the hierarchy decision that gives approvals and announcements priority.
   - Identify the states and accessibility obligations that affect the design.
   - Keep reasoning concise and tied to the supplied facts.

2. **Screen list**
   - Name the intranet home and each supporting announcement or approval view needed.
   - Give each screen a purpose, primary user task, and entry or exit path.
   - Do not add unrelated intranet areas.

3. **Components per screen**
   - Specify headers, navigation, announcement modules, approval queues, filters, status indicators, action controls, and supporting content.
   - For each component, state its content, priority, interaction, and responsive behavior.
   - Mark unknown content with the appropriate [FILL IN] slot.

4. **Behaviour per state**
   - Cover loading, populated, empty, error, unavailable, permission-restricted, and success or submitted states where applicable.
   - For announcements, define reading, filtering, and acknowledgement behavior only when supported by supplied facts.
   - For approvals, define review and action behavior without inventing workflow authority or deadlines.
   - Include keyboard operation and screen-reader labels for every interactive pattern.

5. **Design tokens**
   - Specify color roles, typography, spacing, borders, elevation, focus treatment, and responsive breakpoints.
   - Use confirmed brand values or slots; do not invent a company palette.
   - State date, number, currency, and address formats where relevant.
   - Include tokens needed to distinguish announcement priority and approval status without relying on color alone.

6. **Conclusion**
   - Summarize how the proposed home keeps announcements and approvals central.
   - List unresolved decisions as [FILL IN] items rather than resolving them speculatively.
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## Style rules

Use a hybrid style. Use itemized, scannable lists and compact tables for the screen list, components, states, tokens, and acceptance details. Use short narrative paragraphs for the reasoning steps and conclusion. Keep the register professional, direct, and suitable for internal product and engineering review. Avoid vague UX clichés such as “seamless,” “intuitive,” “single source of truth,” and “empower employees.” Describe observable behavior instead.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

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Before delivering, run these checks and report only the resulting specification:

1. Confirm that the deliverable is an intranet home design, not code, a marketing page, or a general intranet strategy.
2. Confirm that announcements and approvals are the two dominant information priorities throughout the screen hierarchy.
3. Check every company, brand, workflow, permission, deadline, metric, color, and compliance detail against the input; mark any absent value with the correct [FILL IN] slot.
4. Check that no slot for the company or brand description, primary approval workflows, or target devices and accessibility jurisdiction has been filled arbitrarily.
5. Confirm that the screen list, components per screen, behavior per state, and design tokens all appear in the required order.
6. Confirm that loading, empty, and error states are specified for both announcements and approvals.
7. Confirm that keyboard operation, focus behavior, and screen-reader labels are addressed for interactive controls.
8. Confirm that WCAG 2.2 AA, 200% zoom, and the 320px no-horizontal-scroll requirement are explicitly covered.
9. Confirm that ADA Title III and Section 508 are treated as questions or [FILL IN]/[VERIFY] dependencies, not assumed obligations.
10. Confirm that date, number, currency, and address formats are stated or left as slots wherever relevant.
11. Remove any content that drifts into backend architecture, implementation, rollout, or unrelated intranet modules.
12. Confirm that no unsupported performance, engagement, compliance, or workflow claims appear.
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