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Do Dont m make t them g guess How to improve your architecture visualizations OReilly Software Architecture Conference New York City, February 27, 2018 Jochem Schulenklopper, Xebia @jschulenklopper Do Dont t ma make th them

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Do Don’t m make t them g guess

How to improve your architecture visualizations

O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference New York City, February 27, 2018 Jochem Schulenklopper, Xebia @jschulenklopper

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Do Don’t t ma make th them m guess How to improve your architecture visualizations

Communicating (about) architecture to non-IT and business stakeholders is a valuable skill for architects. After all, many architectural-relevant decisions are made by others, so they need to be informed with clear, honest, intelligible and helpful information and

  • advice. This presentation will show theory and practical tips on eight

different facets of visual communication of architecture. Jochem Schulenklopper, Xebia jschulenklopper@xebia.com

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Who’s th

them?

And wh

why can’t we let them gu gues ess?

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Se Service ces, s, modules, s, libraries So Software components In Integ egration Perfor

  • rmance, s

scalability Con Consistency, a availability, s stability Fr Frameworks, s, languages, s, platforms SOL SOLID, , GR GRASP SP, , DRY, , KISS SS

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Is Issues es, changes es Ol Old-fa fashioned applications Cos Costs, i investments, r revenue Me Metri rics, KPIs PIs, ROI Op Opportunities, s, threats Vu Vulnera rabilities, risks CAP CAPEX v

  • vs. O

OPEX

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‘Architecting’ Getting input Providing information

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Co Communication \kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən\ Using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to ex express or ex exchange information

  • r to convey ideas, thoughts, feelings,

... to to someone else

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Co Communication \kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən\ Getting a message ac across and under understood

Protip: it helps to use a language your audience understands

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The ‘other’ architects use visualizations all all th the e tim time

http://www.lego.com/en-us/architecture/products/new-york-city-21028

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Simplified working ex example for today

(not far removed from many architecture visualizations we see)

Customer web FinApp B2B Portal Legacy CRM SQL Server 2000 PostgreSQL 8.x ACME backend Some apps in AWS EC2 AD Big Data processing

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Improve your architecture visualizations, using...

  • 1. Pre-attentive processing
  • 2. ‘Gestalt’ principles
  • 3. Color
  • 4. Text
  • 5. Icons, images
  • 6. Graphs and (interactive) data visualizations
  • 7. Storytelling
  • 8. Sketchnoting
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Wa Warning: close your eyes if you’ve

got pho

photosens nsit itiv ive ep epilep ilepsy :-)

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Protip: don’t make objects equal if the object

cts aren’t equal

(according to some measure)

@jschulenklopper

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And since not everybody is here:

don’t assume that objects

ar are e eq equal al if they lo look eq equal al

@jschulenklopper

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https://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/gestalt-principles.htm

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Protip: gr

group things

when th

thin ings s ar are alik alike

(again, according to some measure)

@jschulenklopper

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Customer web FinApp B2B Portal Legacy CRM SQL Server 2000 PostgreSQL 8.x ACME backend Some apps in AWS EC2 AD Big Data processing

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http://web.mta.info/maps/submap.html

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Image credit: Daniel Burns, @dburnsdesign

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Trust Confidence Stability Safety Harmony Healthy Clean Purity Light Energy Attention Happy Wealth Wisdom Royalty Success Enthusiasm Creativity Passion Strength Energy Mystery Elegance Power

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https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur-choropleths/

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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/

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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/

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http://www.colour-blindness.com/colour-blindness-tests/ishihara-colour-test-plates/

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Protip: use color to convey

  • r bo

boost y your me ur messa ssage

(but use it wisely, and not just to prettify)

@jschulenklopper

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CustomerWeb FinApp B2B Portal Apps in EC2 Legacy CRM

Accounts Big Data processing

ACME backend ACME’s IT - today Version 0.8

  • Feb. 27, 2018

author@acme.org ~80k # users 560 27 99.7% uptime 176 # open defects

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This should be TURNED OFF before 4Q2018 PoC in 2018: INTEGRATING these three Minor UPGRADE required to v. 9.1 EXPENSIVE!

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just right

very ry creativ ive, no not readable le

too few

Ascender Descender Do not Stem Tail Serif Crossbar Use Counter Eye Terminal Jargon Condensed Kerning

this is way, way too much text to convey such a simple tip

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Protip: K.

K.I.S.S.

(and do not use jargon)

Yes, that’s a joke. “K.I.S.S.” is jargon.

@jschulenklopper

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https://www.behance.net/gallery/7868787/MA

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http://www.flaticon.com/packs/basic-flat-icons

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GDPR anyone? Where’s our “personal data”?

Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

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Protip: be prude

prudent with pict ctures,

and in

intellig elligen ent with ic icons

(Use them, but with caution)

@jschulenklopper

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Vinyl records are back, unquestionably! revenue 2005 - 2015

Source: US-based data compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America
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... but it’s still nothing compared to the ‘80s revenue 1973 - 2015

Source: US-based data compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, big lies, and statistics graphs.

  • Benjamin Disraeli could have said this
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http://www.labnol.org/software/find-right-chart-type-for-your-data/6523/

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Who or Which? Where? When? What? How or Why? How much?

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Business processes

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ArchiMate example

http://www.archimate.nl/en/about_archimate/example.html

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Flow of information through business

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Radar plots

Ma Mark rket Bu Business IT IT Te Technology

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Application si size Impo Importanc nce

  • f application

Qua Quality of application

I M I M P P R R O O V V E E P H P H A A S S E E O O U U T T M A M A I I N N T T A A I I N N ACCE CEPT

Application portfolio visualizations

https://portfolioviz.com

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https://github.com/grafana/grafana

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https://d3js.org/

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Jupyter notebooks & Observable

http://jupyter.org/ https://beta.observablehq.com/

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Sit Sites

  • https://informationisbeautiful.net/
  • http://flowingdata.com/
  • http://www.visualisingdata.com/

Bo Books

  • http://www.visualisingdata.com/book/
  • https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
  • http://book.flowingdata.com/

To Tools

  • https://d3js.org/
  • https://rawgraphs.io/
  • https://www.tableau.com/

Some inspiration for data- based visualizations

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Protip: be ho

hone nest, cl clear, in intelligib elligible le and act ctionable

(and look for a high data-ink ratio)

@jschulenklopper

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms

  • Muriel Rukeyser
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Pu Public-ke key cr cryptography, also called asymmetric c cr cryptography, is a communication where people exchange messages that can only be read by one another. In public key cryptography, each user has a pair of cryptographic keys:

  • a public key
  • a private key

The private key is kept secret, while the public key may be widely distributed and used by other users. Incoming messages are encrypted with the recipient's public key and can only be decrypted with their corresponding private key. The keys are related mathematically, but the user's private key cannot be easily got from the widely used public key. The most usual problem with this method arises when private key is accidentally leaked. The two main branches of public key cryptography are:

  • Public

c key encr cryption: a message encrypted with a recipient's public key cannot be decrypted except by the recipient private key. This is used to ensure secrecy.

  • Di

Digital s signatures: a message signed with a sender's private key can be verified by anyone who has the sender's public key. So if the sender signed the message no one can alter it. This is used to get authenticity.

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Business processes in landscape

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Evolution of an application or landscape

tyesteryear ttomorrow

ttoday

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Protip: “Once

ce upon a time...”

(Take a minute more, and imagine a story)

@jschulenklopper

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http://rohdesign.com/

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Quicker, more versatile than other drawing tools

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/sketchnotes-a-guide-to-visual-note-taking/pt/892

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Low-fidelity >> high-fidelity

https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/architectural-sketches-002-the-series/

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Creates and shows a story at the same time

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Protip: sketch

ch, doodle, draw

and scribble mo

more a and mo nd more

(And hold back from PowerPoint, Visio, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, ...)

@jschulenklopper

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So So, do , don’t n’t m make t the hem g gue uess

I’d love to see us all us all make better architecture visualizations

Jochem Schulenklopper, Xebia @jschulenklopper