IBM Cloud Observability abstract service illustration in light mode IBM Cloud Observability abstract service illustration in dark mode

01 · Event Notifications

Design a subscription flow people can understand.

My first start-to-finish product-design project consolidated sources, destinations, subscriptions, and conditions into a simpler stepped flow. Concept testing supported the direction.

Proposed and concept-tested, not evidence of shipment or measured impact.

02 · IBM Cloud Logs

Adapt an existing product toward IBM Cloud conventions.

I explored how IBM Cloud Logs could adopt IBM Cloud visual conventions.

Source token study mapping visualization roles and colors toward IBM theme values
Token translation · Internal exploration

Token translation mapped source visualization roles toward IBM theme values.

03 · Illustration system

Build a visual method the team could extend.

I created most of the original product illustrations and reusable components, then partnered with the team to document and scale the method.

IBM Cloud concept sketches progressing through shared isometric construction studies
Concept to final

Exploration narrowed composition, service metaphors, and hierarchy.

IBM Cloud illustration foundations showing base, shadow, color, gradient, and lighting rules
Reusable foundations

Shared construction, color, gradient, and lighting rules made the method easier to inspect and extend.

Light and dark product family

Observability opens the page. Five additional product pairs show how the shared method adapted across themes and services.

Code Engine illustration in the light theme Code Engine illustration in the dark theme
Container Registry illustration in the light theme Container Registry illustration in the dark theme
Satellite illustration in the light theme Satellite illustration in the dark theme
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service illustration in the light theme IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service illustration in the dark theme
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud illustration in the light theme Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud illustration in the dark theme
IBM Cloud service icons built from consistent isometric geometry and color
Reduced service metaphors

The same geometry and color discipline carried into smaller icon surfaces.