diff --git a/packages/react/components/Editor/index.mjs b/packages/react/components/Editor/index.mjs
index b2470381ac9..9a5390c3aaa 100644
--- a/packages/react/components/Editor/index.mjs
+++ b/packages/react/components/Editor/index.mjs
@@ -118,8 +118,12 @@ export const Editor = ({
 
   const { account } = useAccount()
 
+  // this should be just account.control, but there was a bug where a non-logged-in user had an
+  // object stored in account.control in localStorage instead of an integer
+  const ux = Number.isInteger(account.control) ? account.control : 3
+
   if (state.ui?.ux === undefined) {
-    passDownState.ui = { ...(state.ui || {}), ux: account.control }
+    passDownState.ui = { ...(state.ui || {}), ux: ux }
   }
 
   return (
diff --git a/packages/react/hooks/useAccount/index.mjs b/packages/react/hooks/useAccount/index.mjs
index ecfb6fa1b6d..f98807c9f05 100644
--- a/packages/react/hooks/useAccount/index.mjs
+++ b/packages/react/hooks/useAccount/index.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import useLocalStorageState from 'use-local-storage-state'
-import { control as defaultControlLevel } from '@freesewing/config'
+import { control as controlConfig } from '@freesewing/config'
 
 /*
  * When there is no account, we use this making it easy to check for username
  * or control
  */
-const noAccount = { username: false, control: defaultControlLevel }
+const noAccount = { username: false, control: controlConfig.dflt }
 
 /*
  * FreeSewing's useAccount hook. Grants access to the (data in the) user's account