Navigation & Home Hub Overhaul

What & Why

The app offers a lot, but people struggle to find things and the most important revenue surface — events & registration — isn't front-and-center for parents and athletes. Today the sidebar groups links by internal role names ("Admin & Operations", "Volleyball Community") and after login users are dropped onto role-specific pages with no "start here". This makes one connected improvement: (1) a personalized Home hub that leads with events, (2) a sidebar re-grouped by plain-language activity, and (3) a discoverable "What do you want to do?" launcher.

The nav system is already registry-driven and multi-role aware: every link declares its + , and the sidebar already merges links for people who hold several roles. So most of this is re-grouping and adding a hub — not rebuilding the engine. A command palette (, Cmd+K) already exists and surfaces persona-aware nav items; the launcher work makes it visible and task-oriented rather than building a new one.

Done looks like

After login, every role except SuperAdmin lands on a new Home hub that

shows upcoming events / "Register now" first, then a tidy set of quick-action cards for the things that person actually does (based on all their roles).

SuperAdmin keeps its current Control Panel landing.
A person with multiple roles sees all their relevant cards on the hub and all

their relevant sections in the sidebar, clearly labelled.

The sidebar is grouped under plain-language headings: **My Profile · Events &

Registration · Communication · AI Help · Community**, plus the existing role-only sections (admin, coaching, league) that appear only for people who have those roles.

There is an obvious "What do you want to do?" entry point (a visible search

button in the header and on the hub) that opens the quick launcher, including task-style shortcuts (e.g. "Register for an event", "Pay a balance", "Message a coach").

Existing pages (parent home, athlete home, programs, payments, etc.) remain

reachable; nothing is deleted, only reorganized and given a better front door.

Out of scope

No change to SuperAdmin's landing or admin tooling layout.
No backend/role-model changes — gating still uses the existing persona system.
No new event/registration features; the hub reuses existing event data and the

existing registration/programs flow.

No visual rebrand beyond what the hub and new headings require.

Steps

1. Decide the activity grouping map — Map every existing sidebar item to one of the new plain-language groups (My Profile, Events & Registration, Communication, AI Help, Community) while leaving role-only sections (admin, coaching, active-event, league, governance) intact for those personas. Keep the current persona gating on each item so multi-role merging still works. 2. Re-group the sidebar — Update the group labels and group ordering in the nav registry so the new headings render in a sensible order, with Events & Registration prominent for parents/athletes. Verify a multi-role account (e.g. parent + coach) shows every relevant section. 3. Build the Home hub page — Create a new hub page that leads with upcoming events and a clear "Register" call-to-action (reuse the data/source the parent home and programs pages already use), followed by quick-action cards derived from the same persona-aware nav registry so cards always match what the person can actually do. Make it role-agnostic: it composes from the viewer's combined roles. 4. Route login to the hub — Point the post-login redirect for all non- SuperAdmin roles to the new hub (replacing the parent/athlete split), keeping the SuperAdmin flow untouched and preserving any stored deep-link redirect. Add the route and keep the old role pages reachable from the hub/sidebar. 5. Surface the launcher — Add a visible "What do you want to do?" trigger (header button + a prominent control on the hub) that opens the existing command palette, and add a small set of task-oriented quick actions to it so common goals are one click. Keep the existing Cmd+K behavior. 6. Verify — Check the hub, redirect, regrouped sidebar, and launcher for the main personas (parent, athlete, coach, multi-role, board, referee) and confirm events are the first thing parents/athletes see. Typecheck clean.

Architectural note: the nav registry () is the single source of truth — re-grouping must happen there (group + GROUP_ORDER), not by hand-editing the sidebar renderer, so the sidebar, command palette, and hub stay in lock-step.

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