Add overlays and modals

Add overlays and modals in Figma — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

4prompt heights
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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Add the account-settings modal and link it to the profile avatar so Marco in support can test the…
Add the account-settings modal and link it to the profile avatar so Marco in support can test the password flow Monday. The modal must trap focus, allow closing with ESC and the Close icon, and preserve scroll position underneath. Verify the Save button becomes enabled only when changes are made and call out any copy that needs legal review.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I send this to Marco, make the modal reviewer-friendly: make the close affordances visible,…
Before I send this to Marco, make the modal reviewer-friendly: make the close affordances visible, show the disabled and enabled Save states, surface where focus will land when opened, and highlight any inputs with validation rules so a QA tester won’t miss flaky behavior.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I linked the profile avatar to the settings modal, but pressing ESC leaves it open. Support and QA…

The modal opens but ESC doesn’t close it.

I linked the profile avatar to the settings modal, but pressing ESC leaves it open. Support and QA will try keyboard shortcuts first; I’m worried it’s a focus trap misconfiguration or that the modal instance isn’t the active layer. I can’t see if the close action is attached to the correct component. What check should I run now to fix this before Marco tests tomorrow?

Become — change the pattern

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Across releases we ship modals that later fail accessibility and keyboard tests, forcing…

Modals routinely fail accessibility checks late in the cycle.

Across releases we ship modals that later fail accessibility and keyboard tests, forcing last-minute patches. I need a single habit to stop this. What naming, component rules, and a short accessibility preflight will catch focus, ESC, and ARIA issues before QA discovers them?

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Other interface design work people do in Figma.

Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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