The Systems · Birdseye

One Home Screen for Every System

Every one of our operating systems now opens the same way: the whole business from above, every room showing its own number, the middle telling you where you stand.
Accelerated Experiences LLCOctober 11, 20263 min read
Birdseye, the home screen

Birdseye. The full story, and the machine that did it, is told in Build Podcast, Episode 1.

Where it came from

Birdseye started in AE Remote Work OS, the office for one person on one phone. A grid of rooms, every room showing its own number before you tap a thing, and the middle one telling you how today is going. A frosted dock along the bottom. The helper on a tab at the right edge.

On October 10 the order was simple: convert every one of our operating systems, on the phone and on the desktop, to that.

Not a reskin

The same night came the part that mattered. A lot of our systems were not showing the right information, or the right words, for the trade they were built for. So the conversion could not be paint. Every system went through three checks:

The look. Birdseye, the dock, the helper tab.

The numbers. Every room shows the figure that trade actually watches, not a placeholder.

The trade. The room names, the icons, the words and the main button are that business’s own: tap in for a nurse, a new estimate for a contractor, a table for a restaurant.

A system that shows the wrong numbers has not been converted.

Where it stands

By the morning of October 11, every one of our operating systems opened on Birdseye. And every new system is born on it.