# Interactive pricing calculator

Schema: Design Details SECTION.md v3.2
Website: Parallel
Source: https://parallel.ai/
Source section IDs: gap-5d41b28d-8901-9711
Status: AI analysed; vocabulary promotion is automated

## Builder's note

What makes it work:
- An asymmetric split pairs a large textured orange graphic holding a white calculator card with a quiet text column and one button, so the eye lands on the interaction first.
- The card is organised on a clear grid: mono uppercase labels, a slider, tier names and a summary row, with the orange price as the single focal accent against white and near-black text.
- The calculator shows the message 'pay for answers, not tokens' instead of just stating it, and the layered striped and solid orange panels give a familiar slider pattern a tactile feel.

What a screenshot can't show:
- The slider was dragged between about 25 and 29 seconds to estimate cost, but the recording shows no easing, timing detail or extra animated feedback.
- Measured font sizes, spacing and section padding were not captured, so exact scale and rhythm are unknown.

Borrow: Put a simple, working control inside a clean card on a bold textured backdrop, so the product's pricing logic is felt before it is read.
Leave alone: Don't copy the orange-and-pink striped panel texture, the orange slider styling or the Gerstner Programm typeface; a neutral grotesque sans with a free mono would serve instead.

## Classification

- Type: pricing
- Layout: Left side textured graphic with a slider UI; right side text and a button.
- Styles: bold, editorial, geometric
- Confidence: 95%

## Purpose and structure

A pricing section featuring an interactive slider UI over a textured orange background.

Visual signature: Textured orange and pink background holding a white UI card with an orange slider.

## Components

- slider input
- ui mockup
- heading
- paragraph
- button

## Typography

- Display: gerstnerProgramm — 36px 500
- Heading: gerstnerProgramm — 32px 500
- Body: gerstnerProgramm — 16px 500
- Mono: ftSystemMono — 13px 400

## Functional palette

- Canvas: canvas #FFFFFF
- Text: text #181818
- Primary-Action: primary action #FB631B
- Muted-Text: muted text #858483
- Border: border #E5E5E5
- Surface: surface #E9F0F5
- Accent: accent #FF743D

## Motion evidence

- 25.0–29.0s — An interactive slider to estimate costs based on processing needs. (96% confidence)

## Section quality

Overall: 62.90/100 (Good)
Scored coverage: 100%

- Typography: 62 — Clean use of gerstnerProgramm for heading/body and mono for UI labels ('PROCESSORS', tier names) establishes a clear technical/editorial hierarchy, with the orange price value as a focal accent. Nothing beyond competent pairing is demonstrated. Next tier: No distinctive type treatment, custom numerals, or expressive scale shift beyond standard heading/body/mono roles.
- Composition: 68 — Strong asymmetric split: a large textured graphic with layered orange panels and striped pattern on the left, grounding a white UI card, against a quiet right-hand text column. The card's internal grid (slider, tier labels, summary row) is well organized with clear alignment and whitespace. Next tier: Layout is a standard left-visual/right-copy pricing pattern; the card itself, while tidy, doesn't introduce a structural idea beyond a conventional slider-and-labels dashboard.
- Motion: 55 — Gemini confirms a functional interactive slider for cost estimation (25.0-29.0s) but gives no detail on easing, transition style, or secondary animated feedback beyond the slider moving. Next tier: No timestamped evidence of refined motion choreography (e.g., value counters animating, card reacting, toggle transitions) to justify a higher score.
- Content: 65 — The calculator mockup directly visualizes the section's pricing message ('pay for answers, not tokens'), and the textured background reinforces a tactile, non-generic brand mood tied to the copy about flexible cost dialing. Next tier: The UI card content (tier names, readout) is illustrative rather than deeply tied to real differentiated data points that would deepen the narrative.
- Originality: 66 — The layered striped/solid orange panels behind a clean white calculator card is a distinctive textural choice that elevates a familiar pricing-slider pattern beyond generic SaaS styling. Next tier: The core interaction pattern (slider + tier labels + price readout) is a well-worn UI convention; the novelty is confined to the background treatment rather than the interaction model itself.
- Adaptability: 60 — The white card/slider UI is cleanly separable from the textured background skin, and the right-side text/button block is a standard independent module, so component separation is fairly legible from the deterministic layout facts. Next tier: No deterministic detail on the texture/pattern construction (image asset vs. CSS-generated) to confirm how portable the background treatment is without the original asset.

Strengths:
- Textured layered-orange background gives the pricing module a distinct tactile identity beyond flat color fields
- Clear internal hierarchy within the white card: label, slider, tier markers, readout row
- Copy and visual metaphor (dial/slider) are well matched to the 'pay for answers, not tokens' message

Weaknesses:
- Slider-and-tier-label pattern is a common pricing-calculator convention with no structural reinvention
- Motion evidence is limited to the existence of the interaction, not its quality or craft
- Right-side text column is a plain, default stacked heading/paragraph/button block with no compositional tension

Why it does not reach the next tier: The section is well-executed and visually coherent but relies on a conventional slider-calculator UI pattern dressed in a distinctive background texture; to reach strong/memorable it would need either a more inventive interaction model or richer motion choreography that visibly surprises, neither of which is evidenced here.

## Adaptation guidance

- Effort: Medium
- Guidance: Rebuild the white calculator card and right-column text block as independent components; the slider/tier-label/readout structure can be reused with any brand palette, but the layered textured background is a bespoke asset that needs recreation or substitution to preserve the visual impact.

What transfers:
- Split layout of visual/UI mockup left, heading+copy+CTA right
- White card containing slider, tier labels, and price readout row pattern
- Toggle control (human/machine) paired with a slider for parameter adjustment

Dependencies:
- Specific textured orange/pink striped background graphic asset
- Exact brand color (#FB631B) and texture rendering technique
- Mono font pairing for technical-feeling labels

## Living vocabulary

- No reusable vocabulary candidates were supported by this section.

Only terms with status `active` enter the public taxonomy. Deferred and proposed terms remain available to later AI passes; rejected terms remain as provenance so they are not repeatedly reinvented.

## Provenance and limitations

- Section boundaries and naming: Gemini Pro visual observation
- Motion observations: Gemini Pro direct-video analysis
- Quality judgment: Claude
- Exact design facts: browser/CSS extraction at website scope
- Rubric: Design Details section rubric 3.2 (Typography 20%, Composition 20%, Motion 15%, Content 15%, Originality 15%, Adaptability 15%)
- Motion scoring is limited to a single confirmed interaction window without detail on transition quality
- No information on whether the background texture is an image asset or generated pattern, limiting adaptability certainty
- Cannot verify exact spacing, radius, or shadow values on the card from description alone

## Usage guidance

Use this section as design evidence. Create an original implementation; do not reproduce the source copy, assets, or proprietary composition exactly.

## Build blueprint v3.2

### Purpose and classification

- Canonical type: pricing
- Source type: pricing
- Structure: Left side textured graphic with a slider UI; right side text and a button.
- Layout: Left side textured graphic with a slider UI; right side text and a button.
- Styles: bold, editorial, geometric
- Components: slider input, ui mockup, heading, paragraph, button
- Purpose: A pricing section featuring an interactive slider UI over a textured orange background.
- Visual signature: Textured orange and pink background holding a white UI card with an orange slider.
- Place on the page: 14 of 19, after Feature collection (`parallel-ai:C07`), before Call to action (`parallel-ai:C15`)

### Crop and composition

- Deterministic crop dimensions are unavailable.
- Guidance: Preserve the documented hierarchy and relationships; exact measurements were not deterministically captured.

### Exact typography evidence

The sectionScale values were measured inside this crop. The siteRoles values explain how those faces function across the source website; they must not replace section measurements.

```json
{
  "sectionScale": [],
  "siteRoles": [
    {
      "role": "display",
      "size": "36px",
      "family": "gerstnerProgramm",
      "source": "computed",
      "traits": "Regular",
      "weight": "500",
      "evidence": "font-6: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 36px, used for the main hero headline 'Where agents find answers'.",
      "sampleId": "font-6",
      "confidence": 0.9,
      "lineHeight": "40px",
      "letterSpacing": "normal"
    },
    {
      "role": "heading",
      "size": "32px",
      "family": "gerstnerProgramm",
      "source": "computed",
      "traits": "Regular",
      "weight": "500",
      "evidence": "font-4: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 32px, used for major section headings like 'Put the web to work across every industry'.",
      "sampleId": "font-4",
      "confidence": 0.9,
      "lineHeight": "36px",
      "letterSpacing": "normal"
    },
    {
      "role": "body",
      "size": "16px",
      "family": "gerstnerProgramm",
      "source": "computed",
      "traits": "Regular",
      "weight": "500",
      "evidence": "font-11: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 16px, used for descriptive paragraphs under features.",
      "sampleId": "font-11",
      "confidence": 0.85,
      "lineHeight": "24px",
      "letterSpacing": "0.2px"
    },
    {
      "role": "mono",
      "size": "13px",
      "family": "ftSystemMono",
      "source": "computed",
      "traits": "Regular",
      "weight": "400",
      "evidence": "font-9: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: ftSystemMono 13px, used for navigation links, smaller metadata, and technical accents.",
      "sampleId": "font-9",
      "confidence": 0.95,
      "lineHeight": "16px",
      "letterSpacing": "0.2px"
    }
  ]
}
```

### Exact color evidence

The section samples record where each computed value was used. Functional roles come from the website-level classifier and remain separate.

```json
{
  "sectionUsage": [],
  "functionalPalette": [
    {
      "hex": "#FFFFFF",
      "name": "canvas",
      "role": "canvas",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-1: computed rgb(255, 255, 255); AI role: Pure white (#FFFFFF) used extensively as the main background color for most sections.",
      "sampleId": "color-1",
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "hex": "#181818",
      "name": "text",
      "role": "text",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-5: computed rgb(24, 24, 24); AI role: Dark gray/black (#181818) used for primary headings and body text.",
      "sampleId": "color-5",
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "hex": "#FB631B",
      "name": "primary action",
      "role": "primary-action",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-22: computed rgb(251, 99, 27); AI role: Bright orange (#FB631B) used for primary CTA buttons like 'Log in' and 'Start building for free'.",
      "sampleId": "color-22",
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "hex": "#858483",
      "name": "muted text",
      "role": "muted-text",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-3: computed rgb(133, 132, 131); AI role: Medium gray (#858483) used for secondary text like navigation links and descriptive subtext.",
      "sampleId": "color-3",
      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "hex": "#E5E5E5",
      "name": "border",
      "role": "border",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-32: computed rgb(229, 229, 229); AI role: Light gray (#E5E5E5) used for borders around inputs, buttons, and structural lines.",
      "sampleId": "color-32",
      "confidence": 0.8
    },
    {
      "hex": "#E9F0F5",
      "name": "surface",
      "role": "surface",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-24: computed rgb(233, 240, 245); AI role: Light blue/gray (#E9F0F5) used for background panels or blocks, such as the top announcement bar.",
      "sampleId": "color-24",
      "confidence": 0.7
    },
    {
      "hex": "#FF743D",
      "name": "accent",
      "role": "accent",
      "source": "computed",
      "evidence": "color-20: computed rgb(255, 116, 61); AI role: Another shade of orange (#FF743D) used in highlight blocks or accents.",
      "sampleId": "color-20",
      "confidence": 0.7
    }
  ]
}
```

### Design tokens

```json
{
  "radius": "Small border-radius (e.g., 2px-4px) on form elements and buttons, though largely imperceptible, presenting as sharp.",
  "density": "Low density; high amount of negative space around text blocks and between horizontal content bands.",
  "evidence": "Visual inspection of the screenshots shows wide margins, sharp-edged buttons ('Log in', 'API Playground'), solid color fills for primary buttons, and distinct 1px gray borders separating elements like the FAQ list.",
  "borderStyle": "Thin, 1px solid borders using light grays (color-32) for delineating sections, buttons, and UI mockups.",
  "buttonStyle": "Solid fill for primary actions with sharp corners; outlined with transparent backgrounds for secondary actions.",
  "cornerStyle": "Mostly square or very slightly rounded corners on elements like buttons and cards, leaning towards a sharp, technical look.",
  "contentWidth": "Constrained central column for text content (approx 800-1000px), with hero graphics and full-width background bands extending further.",
  "spacingRhythm": "Generous vertical spacing between major sections, creating a distinct, uncrowded layout. Grid layouts in features use moderate gaps."
}
```

### Reconstruction specification

This is the implementation contract for the captured desktop viewport. Prefer section-specific facts here over general website descriptions.

- Root container was not deterministically isolated.
- Layout containers: 0; cards/surfaces: 0; media elements: 0; browser animations: 0.

#### Container, grid, and spacing

```json
{
  "viewport": {
    "width": null,
    "captureBounds": null
  },
  "container": null,
  "spacing": {
    "observedGapsPx": [],
    "representativeContentWidthsPx": []
  },
  "columns": []
}
```

#### Cards and surfaces

```json
{
  "cards": [],
  "surfaces": null
}
```

#### Media treatment

```json
[]
```

#### Browser-exposed animation parameters

```json
[]
```

### Measured geometry, surfaces, media, and animation

These raw values come from the saved element map and computed styles. Empty arrays mean the fact was not captured; they are not permission to invent source values.

```json
null
```

### Observed motion

1. **observed sequence** — An interactive slider to estimate costs based on processing needs. (25s–29s; 96% confidence). Recreate the interaction principle with project-appropriate timing and easing; the evidence does not guarantee source easing values.

The browser animation records above are deterministic parameters captured from active browser animations. The timestamped observations describe what Gemini saw in the video. Treat them as complementary evidence. When either source is empty or they conflict, state the uncertainty instead of inventing timing or easing.

### Responsive contract

- Measured viewport: unknownpx wide.
- Mobile/tablet values: not measured by this section evidence unless a separate capture is explicitly listed.
- Preserve hierarchy and sequence; collapse simultaneous columns only where needed, maintain media aspect ratios, and verify touch targets and text wrapping at target breakpoints.

### Structure versus visual skin

- Preserve: content hierarchy, layout relationships, section rhythm, interaction purpose.
- Adapt: brand colors, font family, copy, imagery, icons, decorative details.
- Rule: Preserve the observed design logic while creating original branding, copy, assets, and implementation details.

### Adaptation and dependencies

- Effort: medium
- What transfers: Split layout of visual/UI mockup left, heading+copy+CTA right; White card containing slider, tier labels, and price readout row pattern; Toggle control (human/machine) paired with a slider for parameter adjustment
- Dependencies: Specific textured orange/pink striped background graphic asset; Exact brand color (#FB631B) and texture rendering technique; Mono font pairing for technical-feeling labels
- Guidance: Rebuild the white calculator card and right-column text block as independent components; the slider/tier-label/readout structure can be reused with any brand palette, but the layered textured background is a bespoke asset that needs recreation or substitution to preserve the visual impact.

### Evidence readiness

- Coverage: 4/7
- Can build: Yes
- Missing facts: section-specific computed typography and color samples; section-level geometry, surfaces, media treatment, and animation parameters
- Warning: Buildable with adaptations for these unsupported facts: section-specific computed typography and color samples; section-level geometry, surfaces, media treatment, and animation parameters.

### Agent implementation prompt

Create an original pricing section inspired by the design evidence titled “Interactive pricing calculator”.

Purpose: A pricing section featuring an interactive slider UI over a textured orange background.

Structure: Left side textured graphic with a slider UI; right side text and a button.. Source layout label: Left side textured graphic with a slider UI; right side text and a button.. Preserve the documented hierarchy and relationships; exact measurements were not deterministically captured.

Visual signature to preserve at the pattern level: Textured orange and pink background holding a white UI card with an orange slider.

Components: slider input, ui mockup, heading, paragraph, button.

Style direction: bold, editorial, geometric.

No deterministic crop dimensions were attached.

Typography evidence: {"role":"display","size":"36px","family":"gerstnerProgramm","source":"computed","traits":"Regular","weight":"500","evidence":"font-6: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 36px, used for the main hero headline 'Where agents find answers'.","sampleId":"font-6","confidence":0.9,"lineHeight":"40px","letterSpacing":"normal"} {"role":"heading","size":"32px","family":"gerstnerProgramm","source":"computed","traits":"Regular","weight":"500","evidence":"font-4: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 32px, used for major section headings like 'Put the web to work across every industry'.","sampleId":"font-4","confidence":0.9,"lineHeight":"36px","letterSpacing":"normal"} {"role":"body","size":"16px","family":"gerstnerProgramm","source":"computed","traits":"Regular","weight":"500","evidence":"font-11: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: gerstnerProgramm 16px, used for descriptive paragraphs under features.","sampleId":"font-11","confidence":0.85,"lineHeight":"24px","letterSpacing":"0.2px"} {"role":"mono","size":"13px","family":"ftSystemMono","source":"computed","traits":"Regular","weight":"400","evidence":"font-9: computed CSS at 1440×1000; AI role: ftSystemMono 13px, used for navigation links, smaller metadata, and technical accents.","sampleId":"font-9","confidence":0.95,"lineHeight":"16px","letterSpacing":"0.2px"}

Color evidence: {"hex":"#FFFFFF","name":"canvas","role":"canvas","source":"computed","evidence":"color-1: computed rgb(255, 255, 255); AI role: Pure white (#FFFFFF) used extensively as the main background color for most sections.","sampleId":"color-1","confidence":0.95} {"hex":"#181818","name":"text","role":"text","source":"computed","evidence":"color-5: computed rgb(24, 24, 24); AI role: Dark gray/black (#181818) used for primary headings and body text.","sampleId":"color-5","confidence":0.95} {"hex":"#FB631B","name":"primary action","role":"primary-action","source":"computed","evidence":"color-22: computed rgb(251, 99, 27); AI role: Bright orange (#FB631B) used for primary CTA buttons like 'Log in' and 'Start building for free'.","sampleId":"color-22","confidence":0.95} {"hex":"#858483","name":"muted text","role":"muted-text","source":"computed","evidence":"color-3: computed rgb(133, 132, 131); AI role: Medium gray (#858483) used for secondary text like navigation links and descriptive subtext.","sampleId":"color-3","confidence":0.9} {"hex":"#E5E5E5","name":"border","role":"border","source":"computed","evidence":"color-32: computed rgb(229, 229, 229); AI role: Light gray (#E5E5E5) used for borders around inputs, buttons, and structural lines.","sampleId":"color-32","confidence":0.8} {"hex":"#E9F0F5","name":"surface","role":"surface","source":"computed","evidence":"color-24: computed rgb(233, 240, 245); AI role: Light blue/gray (#E9F0F5) used for background panels or blocks, such as the top announcement bar.","sampleId":"color-24","confidence":0.7} {"hex":"#FF743D","name":"accent","role":"accent","source":"computed","evidence":"color-20: computed rgb(255, 116, 61); AI role: Another shade of orange (#FF743D) used in highlight blocks or accents.","sampleId":"color-20","confidence":0.7}

No section-bounded typography samples were measured.

No section-bounded color samples were measured.

No saved element-map measurements were available; do not invent exact source spacing, card, media, or animation values.

Motion evidence: observed sequence: An interactive slider to estimate costs based on processing needs. (96% confidence)

Transfer these principles: Split layout of visual/UI mockup left, heading+copy+CTA right; White card containing slider, tier labels, and price readout row pattern; Toggle control (human/machine) paired with a slider for parameter adjustment.

Dependencies: Specific textured orange/pink striped background graphic asset; Exact brand color (#FB631B) and texture rendering technique; Mono font pairing for technical-feeling labels.

Adaptation guidance: Rebuild the white calculator card and right-column text block as independent components; the slider/tier-label/readout structure can be reused with any brand palette, but the layered textured background is a bespoke asset that needs recreation or substitution to preserve the visual impact.

Use new copy, imagery, branding, and implementation details. Do not reproduce the source website or its proprietary assets.
