Resource View Redesign

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Overview

The resource viewer is a visualization that allows users to troubleshoot. Because it scales widely with lots of data, we’re exploring different models for information architecture, layout, and granularity of information.

An example of the resource viewer expanding horizontally

Through research, we learned that:

• Users come in looking for something specifically, or for a general overview to ‘check in’ on the status of clusters and apps
• Seeing the tertiary information (i.e. secrets, services, service accounts) is not necessary at first glance, can be hidden
• Some prefer hierarchal view, some prefer seeing relationships

Exploration

a) Drill down (zoom in/out) - Hierarchical view

b) Drill down (zoom in/out) - Relationships view

c) Drill down to pods

d) Add resource viewer to 'overview' pages

e) Select levels of density (all resources)

(prototype)

b) Toggle between high/low density views (all resources)

f) Expand (target a specific resource)

g) Next exploration - pulling 'overlapping' resources out of tree