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Problem

Creating a cluster was only the beginning. People still needed to connect their data, discover the products available to them, and understand whether the resources they had configured were healthy.

I wanted the dashboard to help people decide what to do next, whether that meant setting up a feature or investigating a problem. A high-level summary needed to stay scannable without hiding the detail someone would need to act.

Key decisions

• Bring health and the next action together. I designed Needs Attention to summarize warnings and errors across a cluster, then lead people to the affected product and its local detail.
• Introduce features where people could use them. For products that were not configured, I surfaced discovery and Get started guidance within the dashboard, with an exit to documentation for the deeper use cases and tradeoffs.
• Reveal detail without losing the overview. I used expansion and collapse to let people investigate a resource, then return to the broader system view. My earlier work on Coinbase mobile informed the emphasis on predictable motion, rather than importing its touch gestures into this dashboard.