RustFS Console Design Guide

This guide is the source of design decisions; use skills/ui-audit/SKILL.md as the companion workflow for audit execution, browser validation, and evidence capture.

Use this guide while shaping the interface, before implementation details harden. Treat Console as an operational tool: the design should help people understand system state, make a deliberate change, and recover when reality is uncertain.

Design objectives

Every screen should make four things obvious:

1. Where the user is.
2. What the system currently knows.
3. What the user can safely do next.
4. How to recover when a read or write fails.

Prefer calm hierarchy over decoration. Density is acceptable when relationships remain clear; visual noise is not.

1. Page composition