Timeline · Diagram Design

# Product launch · fourteen months

Five design moments from the first post to the current schematic overhaul. Spacing is proportional to calendar time — the five-month gap between v1 and v2 is genuinely wider on the page.

THE HEADLINE

### v3 set the complexity budget

January's design overhaul is the pivot — the rule that no diagram exceeds nine components comes from there, and it's why this skill exists in the form it does.

### Honest spacing

- 5 months between v1 and v2
- 4 months between v2 and v3
- 3 months between v3 and now
- Cadence is tightening, not gaming the axis

### Alternate label placement

Above / below flipping prevents label collision without forcing a second row. Five events on one baseline stays legible.