May 2024
Carded 🃏
Greetings from Georgia (country, not state), where I’m currently taking a break from cheese, cute old buildings, and museums to send you a postcard of a different kind.
It’s a fitting theme, because a tidy up of the Flows frontend has revealed quite a few cards across the platform in a shift away from the 2000’s style tables that used to dominate. The cards are now visible in main app for printers and post-processors, as well as the QR app.
The printer card displays both machine status information as well as material loaded, if any.
Card view now extends to post processors too
Cards exist in various forms in the QR app too, for example when handling materials
In short many places now have access to a view that provides a lot of contextual information at the drop of a hat. The list view naturally still stays available, but I have a suspicion that people will prefer the card view.
We also kicked off cards of a different type for Threads this month – templates. It’s natural that a tool that’s currently used to provide some structure to unstructured conversations would extend that structure into the foundation of all bureaucracy – reports such as Technical Data Packages, Model Based Designs, or structured reports of any other kind.It’s exciting progress and I can’t wait to tell you more about it.
In the meantime, I’m hoping for some cards myself – from the tech team. They’re meeting near Birmingham next week, while I’m in Georgia. It’s amazing to see such a physical distributed team come together. I’m delighted, that so many US people could come (even though a number of them didn’t have passports 🤯
And of course, I’ll be pulling out my (credit)card this month as I’m heading to LA for Rapid. Putting the show into a vacation destination in the summer is one of the less enjoyable trends of the tradeshow wars we’re currently going through. I wish the industry would just get together. But if you’re there – let me know, it would be great to meet up. We’ve got a great announcement coming up 😉.
See you there.