UI/UX Improvements

Status: ✅ Complete (Core Features)
Last Updated: 2026-01-14

Overview

Complete UI/UX improvement system with component library expansion, design system, and navigation enhancements.

✅ Toast/Notification system (Toast component with variants, ToastContainer, ToastContext/useToast hook, comprehensive tests)
✅ Tabs component (Tabs, TabList, Tab, TabPanel components with keyboard navigation, ARIA attributes, comprehensive tests)
✅ Dropdown/Select enhanced (Select component with label, error handling, styling, accessibility, comprehensive tests)
✅ Date picker (DatePicker component with label, error handling, styling, calendar icon, accessibility, comprehensive tests)
✅ Time picker (TimePicker component with label, error handling, styling, clock icon, accessibility, comprehensive tests)
✅ Progress bars
✅ Badge component
✅ Modal component
✅ Loading component

✅ Dark mode support (theme field added to User model, UserPreferencesService, API routes, CSS variables with dark mode support, useTheme hook, theme toggle in Settings page, comprehensive backend and frontend tests)
✅ Keyboard shortcuts (KeyboardShortcutsProvider with context, sequence shortcuts (g+t, g+w, etc.), help modal (? key), comprehensive tests, integrated into App)
✅ Accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, focus management)
✅ Loading states and skeletons
✅ Empty states

✅ Breadcrumbs (Breadcrumbs component with route mapping, dynamic segment handling, proper ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, comprehensive tests, integrated into Layout)
✅ Quick navigation menu (QuickNavigationMenu component with search, Ctrl+K/Cmd+K shortcut, keyboard navigation, category grouping, current page indicator, comprehensive tests, integrated into Layout)
✅ Search functionality (integrated into QuickNavigationMenu with filtering by label, category, and keywords)
✅ All core concepts have clear navigation