# Nicole Padin

**Email:** nicole@symph.co
**Role:** Admin
**Joined:** 2026-02-06

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## Communication Style
- Direct, visual communicator
- Uses screenshots heavily to show exactly what needs fixing (especially network tabs for debugging)
- Prefers quick acknowledgments and status updates
- Thorough QA tester - catches bugs and reports with precise details

## Design Preferences
- **Fonts**: Prefers clean sans-serif for numbers (Inter-style tabular figures) over monospace fonts
- **UI density**: Prefers compact layouts - "too wide" is a common complaint
- **Consistency**: Big on cohesive branding - landing page and dashboard should feel like same app
- **Icons**: Prefers clean lucide-react icons over colorful emojis
- **Colors**: Likes modern, clean palettes - emerald greens, warm ambers

## Common Requests
- UI polish (spacing, fonts, component consistency)
- Section reordering
- Design cohesion between pages
- Removing/compacting elements that feel too bulky
- Feature additions (receipt scanning, compliance checklists, tax form lists)

## Corrections Log
- 2026-02-10: Requested font change from DM Mono (monospace) to clean sans-serif with tabular figures for numbers
- 2026-02-11: Caught stale build cache issue on SymBals (symph) - showed Network tab screenshot with 400 errors on CSS/JS. Explicitly asked me to "learn from this" - very improvement-focused. This led to documenting the Next.js stale cache pattern in corrections.md.

## Tags
#design #product-owner #personal-accounting
