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ARCHITECTURE

Included and excluded account states

Problem
Clients couldn't tell what their financial totals actually included. The same idea was labeled inconsistently everywhere, and one setting quietly changed calculations no one could see.
What I did
Mapped every inclusion and exclusion state across the experience, turned it into a decision flowchart, and proposed two solution paths with example UX writing.
What changed
The team adopted a hybrid approach built on "hiding complexity." Some fixes have shipped; others are in development.
1 → 4 one toggle, four hidden calculations
Flowchart mapping how account type, toggle state, and graph controls determine which calculations include an account
Current-state decision flowchart, March 2026.
Role
Content design and systems thinking
Collaborators
UX Design, Product, Engineering
Platform
Web, mobile
Year
2026

Ask me about: why "excluded" is a state, not a category