This loosely follows the concept of a story model from Andrew Harrison - highly recommended.
To help generalise what we look at, at The Grid, we use the concept of a lens that acts as a way to capture what’s relevant to that user. It is helpful to think of this in first principles thinking.
There are currently 4 lenses that we use at the Grid:
Profile
Products
Assets
Entity
Jerry walks up to the store.... He sees it through a profile lens, with it contains many things:
What do they offer
What do they do
What currency they support
A real world identifier
Jerry walks into the store. He browses different products in different tagged areas of the store, sometimes wanting to learn more:
What does this do?
How does it describe it’s self?
What does it work with?
Jerry really enjoy his experience at the store & also needs to pay, he checks which assets they support or may even have issued. Sometimes, if I have the right collectable, I get a 10% discount:
What currencies are supported here?
Did this place issue their own asset?
Are they are the same network?
Jerry wanted to first check that this was legit, he wanted to check if it was an official entity:
Lenses at The Grid