Building a platform that covers scheduling, customer records, communication, and appointment booking means designing across very different use cases. The risk is that each use case starts pulling in its own direction and the product ends up feeling fragmented.

We established a consistent way to use components early and applied it at two levels.

1/ At the page level, consistent text sizes and layout logic.

2/ At the component level, the interaction patterns show whether you are filtering technicians, service types, or job durations.

The result is a system where you don't need many text sizes, components, or colors because everything follows a coherent logic.

The filter panel is one example of that direction.

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I'd try restoring one of those JSON backups into a cloned workflow before the next handoff. That way you know it can actually get you running again.