# Build brief: Southwest

Resource base: https://mejohnc.org (or the preview host used to obtain this file).

Use this direction within the user’s requested project and existing design constraints.

## Illustrative use case, not project requirements
A desert travel journal with place names, terrain photographs, and credited local work.

A regional visual reference to desert landscapes and locally specific craft and architecture. The region contains distinct living cultures; this guide uses landscape color rather than claiming a universal cultural pattern.

## Essential cues
- Desert colors
- Landscape forms
- Material texture

## Recipe
- Start with an identifiable place.
- Credit any craft or pattern source.
- Use landscape photography and plain geographic labels.

## Optional decoration
Place-specific photographs and material references are useful.

## Avoid
Combining Indigenous motifs indiscriminately or describing a contemporary community only as a historical influence.

## Values and validation
Read [tokens](/territories/southwest/tokens.json) and [acceptance checklist](/territories/southwest/checklist.md). Use [the working example](/territories/southwest/example/) to inspect color roles, spacing, hierarchy, and interaction states. It is a UI translation, not a reproduction of historical art. Tokens describe the base UI; [example CSS](/territories/assets/example.css) contains the style-specific composition and decorative layer. Preview navigation with `?navigation=top`, `?navigation=sidebar`, or `?navigation=tabs`; combine with `project`. Use [Compare](/territories/compare/) for mobile (390 px), tablet (820 px), and desktop (1440 px) viewports.

## Delivery
Preserve real content and existing working behavior. Check keyboard, narrow layout, error, empty, and success states. Report any departures from this recipe with a reason. Do not claim to have inspected a preview or run checks that you could not access.

Schema 1.0.0; revision f5fd78058ba2.