I’m intrigued by the idea that the human brain is more capable than we give it credit.
When you want to move your arm, you just think about moving it and the brain does the rest. Yet, most of our technology focuses on symbolic representations
Paper was invented long long long long long time ago and it’s not coincidence that it’s still used today.
Back in 1800 we level up our game and make digital paper with telegraphs and fax, up until we got our modern monitor screens.
Have you ever considered that we live in a digital world, human made
Moreover, most of the work we do is targeted to the System 2, the slow processor of sequential information
Google Search: datadog dashboard, → images → first result
How much time would you need to understand this information?
I’m sure there is a lot of complexity that requires domain knowledge, so it’s not a fair comparison
Is this the best we do today?
Beyond Screens
I’m on the search for another mean of interaction with our digital world
We have so much more at our disposal other than screens
Imagine you can physically build you Cloud Infrastructure at scale
You download a blueprint, as you read and build, you are able to understand how everything is interconnected
Each lego block could have clues about the virtual counterpart, or maybe, if you want another host, you could plug-in another Lego block and it sends add new instance request
LEDs Dashboard
Having the context of this is a web service
What do you think each light represents?
Answers:
🟢 Requests
🔴 Errors
🟡 CPU
🔵 Latency
I’m not sure if random lights are the most intuitive representation
I hope that lights + the physical representation could create a better user design