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design · c109archivedstarted Oct 2Auto draft — not yet reviewed

Index

Why we did this

The Inventory and Organization landing pages had said "Design in progress" for about ten cycles, and the home page had nothing on it.

What happened

Those two menu items now just open their lists, and the home page shows the whole fleet at a glance: 35 small summaries, each matching its own page.

Before → afterThe home page now sums up the whole fleet in small boxes, one for each list in the dashboard.
At a glance
4
changes
2
conversations
9
decisions
2
outside helpers

What changed

The two changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    The home page now sums up the whole fleet in small boxes, one for each list in the dashboard.

    The whole fleet on the home page · came from AMZ, Phil Chen and others

  2. 2

    Inventory and Organization in the menu now open their lists; there is no empty landing page.

    Menu items just open · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • Each small box reads the same numbers as its full page, so the two never disagree. In words
  • Five looks for the small boxes were laid side by side before one was picked. New in this cycle

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said
PCPhil ChenAug 25matched · review

“That's act that's pretty cool. That's actually really cool.”

market-analyst /calls/1668d68e… (local)
AAMZSep 2matched · review

“you install the binary, and you would immediately get, like, oh, look. You have 7 agents, 3 models, 11 MCP servers... that creates the holy **** moment.”

market-analyst /calls/6fe4a00b… (local)
We decided

c109-D3 The overview moves to one home page of small summaries; Inventory and Organization only open their lists. — Mark Parson

c109-D1 The home page is one flat grid of summaries, each title prefixed with its page ("I already love this one"). — Mark Parson

c109-D2 Each summary sits on its own white card. — Mark Parson

So now

The home page now sums up the whole fleet in small boxes, one for each list in the dashboard.

Someone said
PCPhil ChenAug 25matched · review

“That's act that's pretty cool. That's actually really cool.”

market-analyst /calls/1668d68e… (local)
AAMZSep 2matched · review

“you install the binary, and you would immediately get, like, oh, look. You have 7 agents, 3 models, 11 MCP servers... that creates the holy **** moment.”

market-analyst /calls/6fe4a00b… (local)
We decided

c109-D3 The overview moves to one home page of small summaries; Inventory and Organization only open their lists. — Mark Parson

So now

Inventory and Organization in the menu now open their lists; there is no empty landing page.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

A
AMZ
Advisor

Named the moment the at-a-glance view is for

In an early-September working session, AMZ described the first look at the inventory, how many agents, models and MCP servers you have, as the moment that sells it. The home page now opens on exactly that.

“you install the binary, and you would immediately get, like, oh, look. You have 7 agents, 3 models, 11 MCP servers... that creates the holy **** moment.” internal
PC
Phil Chen
Prospect · Tiled

Found the inventory easy to grasp

In his August demo Phil called the inventory's way of sorting things, agents, machines, harnesses, surface, activity, "really cool". The home page's sections follow that sorting.

“That's act that's pretty cool. That's actually really cool.” first-hand
MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Reframed the problem and picked the look

After ten cycles of landing-page attempts, reframed it: the menu items just open, and one home page sums everything up. Then picked the flat grid and the white cards.

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

The whole fleet on the home pageBefore → after
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Menu items just openBefore → after
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Five looks, one pickNew in this cycle

Everything captured · 18

The full record 9 decisions · 10 key-change entries · 2,105 words · 18 captures

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