stage 07 · closing: The dashboard from the inside
On the other side of the screen there are people deciding what you see. Recognizing the dashboard is what separates a user from a customer.
- dashboard
- data
- decision
Every screen is somebody's choice. Balance, history, alert, what doesn't show up: none of it is nature, it's a product decision.
What the dashboard decides
Whoever builds the dashboard decides what's shown, what's summarized and what disappears. A public-network explorer shows the raw record — ugly, complete, true. A bank app shows the tidied-up version. Both are right and they tell different things.
On this track the decision was the opposite of the market standard: your progress lives in your browser, with no account and no server. There's no list of who read what because there's no sign-up to feed it. Data that isn't collected doesn't leak later.
What changes in practice
Once you understand there's a dashboard, you stop treating the screen as truth and start treating it as an excerpt. Start asking what was left out. On a public network, the answer is one click away: the raw record is there for anyone who wants to read it.
Mission
Go back to the list you wrote in stage 1 and say what changed about it. Then check off your completed stages on the open track.