Source: c62 visibility-stream — deliberate overreach pass: every visual knob, signal allowed to blur
Eight boards that show the same three weeks from /api/digests. Ideas 1–4 push conventional instruments hard; ideas 5–8 chase unexpected metaphors on purpose. Nothing here is meant to ship whole — the coda names which knobs carried signal.
Mission control
gauges · lamps · sparklines · tickerknob inventory: arc gauge (this week vs best week), status lamps with glow, per-metric sparklines, seven-seg streak, evidence ticker tape. The dark panel is the instrument metaphor, not a dark-mode claim.
The heat wall
intensity grid · story dots · cumulative area| Jul 24 | Jul 31 | Aug 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Agents | · | · | 2 |
| Layer | 1 | · | · |
| Stream | 1 | · | · |
knob inventory: workstream×week intensity cells, per-story dot field (size = story depth, opacity = recency), cumulative area chart. Workstreams are auto-classified from digest text — misfiles are visible and honest.
The river
weeks → lanes sankey · chips adriftknob inventory: sankey ribbons (width = count, opacity = recency), floating evidence chips placed along the flow. Reads left-to-right as "three weeks pour into three lanes."
Radar & orbit
shape-of-the-week polygon · edges as satellitesknob inventory: 5-axis radar with week-ghosting, orbital ring map (edges as satellites by severity, mitigating ones pulse). Edge tallies are static here — the registry isn't in the API yet.
The seismograph
the company as a signal you monitorknob inventory: strip-chart trace on graph paper — up-spikes are ships (amplitude = story depth), down-dips are honest notes, flags label the biggest quakes, live needle at now. The metaphor sells continuity: the pen never lifts.
The arcade
progress as a side-scroller · pixel pawn energyknob inventory: HUD stats (streak = HP, ships = XP, honest notes = truth tokens), stories as pixel sprites marching a level road, asks as quests. Stretches credulity on purpose — but it's the only version that makes the brand's pixel-pawn language do the storytelling.
The constellation
stories as stars · shared citations draw the linesknob inventory: star size = story depth, color = workstream, glow halo, constellation lines auto-drawn between stories that cite the same PR/version/cycle, honest notes as red dwarfs, the ask as a comet. The sky bands are weeks; the map grows a band every Thursday.
The metro map
workstreams as transit lines · stories as stationsknob inventory: transit lines per workstream, station stops per story, ghost stations for next week's promises. The strongest of the wild set — "which line moved this week" is exactly the partner's question, and continuity across weeks is built into the metaphor.
What the noise taught
suggested fold-back into the board: week chips gain sparkline bars (already there) + the metro strip as the board's header visual + the seismograph needle as the "live" affordance. The arcade survives as an easter egg or a launch-moment artifact, not the daily view.