Cost Center (unit toggle)
The cost page showed only dollars. Dollar figures are partly estimates while token counts are measured, so we wanted a switch between the two.
Built in the product, then pulled back the same day to be worked out as a mock first. It never shipped; a later redesign showed both units side by side instead.
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What changed
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A copy of the cost page with a switch between dollars and tokens at the top.
Dollars or tokens · came from Mark Parsonopen →
- 2
Switching units exposed a batch day that flattened the chart, leaders that swap places, and token totals that leave out cached reads.
What the switch taught
- The later cost page shows dollars, tokens and price per million side by side, so no switch is needed. In words
How we got here
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c66-D1 Revert the product change and work the toggle out as a mock on the design site first. — Mark Parson
A copy of the cost page with a switch between dollars and tokens at the top.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.
Switching units exposed a batch day that flattened the chart, leaders that swap places, and token totals that leave out cached reads.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Pulled the change back to a mock, then retired it
Reverted the same-day product change so the design could settle on the design site first; six weeks later, with both units in every row of the redrawn cost page, he retired the switch.
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