# Evaluation — Attempt 1

## Overall Verdict: PASS

## Overall Assessment
The check-in overlay now has a deliberate, strongly directional treatment: the ink-green field is dense and stable behind the welcome copy and live clock, then releases smoothly enough for the church building to remain recognizable toward the form side. The mobile adaptation correctly changes to a vertical fade and preserves header/clock legibility without turning the entire image area into a flat dark block. The requested overlay refinement is ready; an existing tablet layout overflow is noted below but is outside this CSS-only overlay scope.

## Scores
| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The deeper left field, brass details, cream form, and progressively revealed church image now read as one coherent editorial composition. |
| Originality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The photo-led split composition and clock treatment feel specific to this church check-in experience rather than like a generic gradient template. |
| Craft | 2/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | The five-stop desktop fade avoids visible banding, keeps excellent white/brass contrast, and transitions appropriately to a vertical mobile overlay. The overlay itself behaves cleanly at 1440, 768, and 375. |
| Functionality | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | The form and controls remain usable and unchanged. At 768px the pre-existing desktop grid exceeds the viewport and produces horizontal overflow, but this was not introduced by the scoped overlay edit. |

## What's Working Well
- At 1440px, the `.93`–`.90` left field gives the welcome copy and clock excellent contrast while the `.42` and `.19` right-side stops reveal the church tower, façade, people, and ground clearly.
- The transition is smooth: the five stops create a broad tonal release rather than a hard dark/light seam.
- The subtle brass radial highlight does not flatten or overpower the directional fade.
- At 375px, the top-to-bottom treatment protects the logo, headline, service line, clock, and date while the church roof and façade remain recognizable.
- The cream form/card, its internal spacing, alerts, controls, and mobile navigation retain their prior composition; the change is correctly scoped to `.checkin-page`.

## Issues Found
### Issue 1: Existing tablet breakpoint causes horizontal overflow
- **What**: At 768px, the two-column desktop grid still uses minimum column widths plus large gap/padding, making the page wider than the viewport. The right side of the form is clipped until the user scrolls horizontally.
- **Where**: `.welcome-layout` at 768px, just above the current `max-width:760px` mobile breakpoint.
- **Why it matters**: It weakens tablet usability and makes visual inspection of the right-side photo/form boundary harder, even though the overlay itself is correct.
- **Suggested fix**: In a separate layout task, move the responsive breakpoint above 768px (for example 820–900px) or reduce the desktop grid minimums/gap for tablet widths. Do not mix this into the current overlay-only change.

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt
1. No overlay revision is required; preserve the current five-stop desktop fade and mobile vertical adaptation.
2. Schedule a separate tablet responsiveness fix for `.welcome-layout` at 768px because it is outside the approved overlay scope.
3. After that separate fix, repeat the 768px screenshot to confirm the complete form fits without horizontal scrolling.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?
REFINE only if the scope is expanded to include tablet layout. The overlay direction is successful and should not be pivoted; the only material issue observed is the pre-existing 768px grid overflow, which requires a targeted responsive-layout adjustment rather than a redesign.
