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Taken over by later cycles — closeThe landing page question was taken up by c78 (fleet-overview-v3), c100 (Home) and c109 (the / index that shipped).· high confidence

To close: Write the Outcome: hierarchy and mocks done, landing shipped through c109 · Move to HISTORY.md

last activity Aug 27

Why we did this

The dashboard's first page overlapped with the inventory page, and nobody had settled what a person should see first when they log in.

What happened

An order for the first page: a one-line verdict, what needs you, then doors to each area. Seven mocks, ending in Mark's three cards. Picks never came; later cycles shipped it.

Early → finalThe landing went from a verdict sentence over a list of alerts to three cards: inventory, compliance and remediation deadlines.
At a glance
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changes
1
conversation
5
decisions
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outside helpers

What changed

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

  1. 1

    The landing went from a verdict sentence over a list of alerts to three cards: inventory, compliance and remediation deadlines.

    From verdict page to three cards · came from Mark Peterson and Mark Parsonopen →

  2. 2

    First a one-line verdict, then the things that need you, then doors to the rest of the product.

    What comes first · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • Three rounds of ideas for showing what needs attention, from plain lists to cockpit warning lights. New in this cycle
  • A side study proposed folding the posture page into findings, so risk lives in one list. In words

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
MPMark PetersonAug 20matched · review

“machine readable, human readable. So for the human readable for the auditor, machine readable for your GRC platform like Vanta.”

market-analyst /calls/2100ac03… (local)
MPMark PetersonAug 20matched · review

“if we have a critical vulnerability finding, for example, remediated 14 days, we have a high, it's 30, A medium, it's 90 days”

market-analyst /calls/2100ac03… (local)
We decided

c68-D1 The landing is a daily driver; an executive summary would be a separate future page. — Mark Parson

c68-D5 Inventory card: write it up first and mock it later, with the body figure as one treatment. — Mark Parson

So now

The landing went from a verdict sentence over a list of alerts to three cards: inventory, compliance and remediation deadlines.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

c68-D1 The landing is a daily driver; an executive summary would be a separate future page. — Mark Parson

c68-D2 The scorecard is demoted to a card. — Mark Parson

c68-D3 The canonical coverage band lives on the landing. — Mark Parson

So now

First a one-line verdict, then the things that need you, then doors to the rest of the product.

Thanks to

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

MP
Mark Peterson
Advisor · Moto

Named the reports a landing should sum up

On the Aug 20 product review, a week before the three-card mock, he listed the reports a security team needs, including compliance, SLA insights and inventory status, and gave remediation deadlines by severity. The three cards follow that shape.

“if we have a critical vulnerability finding, for example, remediated 14 days, we have a high, it's 30, A medium, it's 90 days” first-hand
MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Set the landing's job and drew the three cards

Made it a daily driver with the scorecard demoted to a card, asked for broader and more visual attention ideas, then designed the three-card landing by hand and asked for four changes to it.

All images

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

The pairs

From verdict page to three cardsEarly → final
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Fifteen ways to say "look here"New in this cycle

Everything captured · 7

The full record 5 decisions · 11 key-change entries · 1,383 words · 7 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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