DataMachine
A new stat-card design needed one flexible part, and Mark saw the pattern our map tool had found: a rich base with a few ready-made presets.
DataMachine shipped in the shared library with two copyable presets. The base-plus-presets idea is now written into our design method.
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What changed
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- 1
The two cards from the mockup are now one part, shown with its controls and two presets you can copy.
Two cards from the mockup, one part · came from Mark Parsonopen →
- 2
The card is a title, a hairline, an optional description, the number, and optional extras around it.
The anatomy of a stat card · came from Mark Parson
- 3
Our design method now names the pattern: build one flexible part, then keep a few ready-made setups people copy.
A rich base, a few presets · came from Mark Parsonopen →
- Line-only sparklines no longer drop at the start and end. In words
How we got here
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c91-D2 Presets stay copyable demos on the design site, not named library parts, until real use shows which to freeze. — Mark Parson
c91-D3 DataMachine composes the existing metric parts unchanged and stays one flat file. — Mark Parson
The two cards from the mockup are now one part, shown with its controls and two presets you can copy.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
c91-D3 DataMachine composes the existing metric parts unchanged and stays one flat file. — Mark Parson
The card is a title, a hairline, an optional description, the number, and optional extras around it.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
c91-D1 DataMachine follows the base-plus-presets pattern, and the pattern goes into the component philosophy and the design method. — Mark Parson
c91-D2 Presets stay copyable demos on the design site, not named library parts, until real use shows which to freeze. — Mark Parson
Our design method now names the pattern: build one flexible part, then keep a few ready-made setups people copy.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Saw the pattern behind the map tool
Noticed that the map and flow tools had grown the same shape, a deep base plus curated presets, and asked for DataMachine to use it and for the idea to be written into the philosophy docs.
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