A beautiful screen built on the wrong data model is a liability. It looks like progress, so it earns trust, and then every change fights the shape underneath it. We design the architecture first because that is where the expensive, hard-to-reverse decisions live.
Cheap on paper, expensive in code
Changing a boundary in a diagram costs an eraser. Changing it after three features depend on it costs a sprint. So we spend the first week producing the model, the seams, and the read/write rules — before a single component is styled.
The seam is the product
Every read goes through one data-access layer. Mock today, API tomorrow — the signatures never change, so the UI is built once and never rewritten when the backend lands. This journal is built exactly that way.
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