Entity Meshes
On the map every thing looked alike. You needed to tell an app from a database or an outside vendor at a glance.
Four shapes, one per kind: apps, services, databases and vendors, with vendors showing their logo. Each can show as active, highlighted, warning or faded out.
What changed
The change that matters most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.
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Apps, services, databases and vendors each get a shape you can tell apart at a glance.
A shape for each kind of thing · came from Mark Parson
- A shape can be active, highlighted, in warning or faded out, and its label follows. New in this cycle
- All shapes share one base, so new kinds of thing are easy to add. 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.
From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.
No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.
Apps, services, databases and vendors each get a shape you can tell apart at a glance.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Built the four actor shapes and their states
The record names no one. The experiment code and this record reached the qmap repo in commits authored by Mark Parson.
All images
Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.
The pairs
Everything captured · 9
The full record 0 decisions · 3 key-change entries · 718 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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