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Scrubber

A scrollbar that knows where the sections are.

It ran at the bottom of every case study: a thumb for where you are, a tick for each section, and a card naming the one you are in. Drag it, click it, or scroll the page under it.

Hero

A sample case study

Overview

Overview

Problem

The problem

Decisions

Three decisions

Outcome

Outcome

What it is

A 234px bar with a brand-blue thumb that tracks the scroll. Each section gets a darker tick placed where that section takes over, and hovering the bar previews the section a click would land on.

Why I needed it

A long case study needs a way to see how far you are and to jump ahead. A native scrollbar shows the first but not where anything is.

How I did it

The ticks are one SVG sized in device pixels, so every tick lands on a whole pixel at any screen scaling. It was replaced on the case studies by a side index that reads its sections from the page itself.