IBM DevOps

Interaction design for IBM's cloud DevOps platform

A DevOps platform put a customer's whole operation in front of them, real-time, historical, and planned. The catch: it was spread across many, many disconnected pages. Everything was there; seeing it whole was the problem.

The single pane of glass became IBM DevOps's answer — one page that pulled those scattered views and elements into something a team could actually read, from the macro shape of an operation down to a single detail. I designed it, and making it deliver meant reworking the data model underneath.

A DevOps platform is only worth opening if you can take it in at a glance. The win wasn't more screens. It was the one that finally held the whole picture.