2026 homepage Ultra HDR

Dogfood speaker portraits with Ultra HDR gain-map JPEGs before any public split.

Dogfood on an HDR display

Open treatment on the Talks section

Where: http://uxbri.local/2026/?ultrahdr=hdr#talks

Compare with control in another tab

Where: http://uxbri.local/2026/?ultrahdr=control#talks

Confirm Florian and Phil still look like Ultra HDR in both arms

Where: same Talks grid — their files already contain gain maps

Check Vivek, Chiara, Kathy, Max and Pat look brighter on HDR treatment

Where: Talks grid + each speaker circle under their bio

On an SDR screen, confirm treatment still looks like a normal JPEG

Where: same treatment URL on a non-HDR display or with HDR display disabled

Lab and kill switch

Find the rollout card on Lab

Where: http://uxbri.local/lab/ — card “2026 homepage Ultra HDR”

Force control with the kill-switch query

Where: http://uxbri.local/2026/?ultrahdr=control#talks

Before promoting to experiment

Register homepage_ultrahdr in GA4 Admin (user + event scoped)

Where: https://analytics.google.com/ → Admin → Custom definitions

When ready, change projects.yml to experiment / 50% and update the JS phase constants

Where: _data/projects.yml id homepage-ultrahdr-ab and scripts/modules/homepageUltrahdrAb.js