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qflow · c3archivedstarted Feb 18Auto draft — not yet reviewed

Item Design

Why we did this

Every sender and destination was the same plain circle, so you couldn't tell a payment provider from an internal service.

What happened

Dots now have names, shapes and colours: blue senders, green internal services, pink outside vendors with their own icons. Labels can be off, on hover, or always on.

Before → afterDots are coloured by kind, carry a name, and outside vendors show their own icon.
At a glance
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conversations
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decisions
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outside helpers

What changed

The change that matters most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    Dots are coloured by kind, carry a name, and outside vendors show their own icon.

    Each dot says what it is · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • Senders can be drawn as circles, squares or hexagons, switched live. New in this cycle
  • Vendor icons load reliably after a workaround for a silent loading bug. 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

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

Dots are coloured by kind, carry a name, and outside vendors show their own icon.

Thanks to

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

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Gave each dot a name, colour and icon

Commits in the qflow repo are all by Mark Parson; the record names nobody, so git authorship is the source.

All images

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

The pairs

Each dot says what it isBefore → after
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Shapes for sendersNew in this cycle

Everything captured · 10

The full record 0 decisions · 10 key-change entries · 188 words · 9 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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Qpoint Brand Style Guide