The Learning page answers three questions in plain words

What changed for people using Bellwether

• Three questions, each answered first. The tab asks whether the desk is getting better, what it keeps getting wrong and what it is doing about it. Each panel opens with its answer as its largest line, such as "It is holding steady", then one or two sentences that say why.
• Only numbers with enough data. Beside the first answer sit at most three figures that have enough history, each with its likely range, its sample and last month beside this month. Every grade still short of data is counted in one line that opens to show how far along each one is.
• One line for each mistake. A repeated mistake is a table row: whose it is, the mistake, how many times in the last 14 days, a status of Watching, Improving or Worsening, and links to the latest example. On a young desk the reason it is too early is said once above the table.
• The machinery sits under a fold. The five steps, the counters and what each role runs under moved to "How this works" at the foot of the page, closed until you open it. If a step was due and did not run, the page says so in a sentence above the fold.
• No engineering references in the text. One grade showed an internal document reference in its text and again in its hover note. The page now writes its own sentence for a grade that cannot be measured yet, for example "This grade starts once strategy adherence is measured."

What you may notice

• The page is shorter. On a 1440 by 900 display a three-week-old desk's page is about 2.4 screens tall, down from 3.4, and on a phone about 4.6, down from 7.4.
• No sentence is set in the fixed-width type any more. On a wide display a one-sentence fact stays on one line.
• "Worth a look" beside a figure is a neutral color whichever way the figure moved. It may be noise or a real shift.
• The count beside the Critic's figure is the proposals it flagged, which is what that grade's minimum counts.
• A grade names the day it should have enough data only while the desk is on course to get there. Otherwise it says "not at this pace".
• On a phone a mistake's count and status sit on the first line of its name.
• The page remembers on your device whether you left "How this works" open.
• The help article "How the desk learns" follows the new order and shows the first answer.

Switched on

• Nothing to switch. The changes apply to everyone from this release.

Known gaps and what’s next

• The lessons list and the version cards inside the fold keep their earlier look until the Desk screens are restyled.
• A mistake's first and last seen dates show only on a wide display. "Latest" opens the last occurrence at any width.
• A three-week-old desk still gets last month beside this month for each grade, which can read oddly beside "has 21 of 74 days".
• Suggested fixes to the desk's instructions still arrive in a later release. Until then "Waiting on you" says nothing is waiting.