04 · Signal Labs2024 · Berlin
Signal Terminal
A pro-grade terminal for a small research team that thinks in graphs.
- Discipline
- Interface · Engineering
- Duration
- 16 weeks
Overview
Signal Labs runs quantitative research on public infrastructure data. We built the internal terminal they now use daily — a keyboard-first, low-chrome workbench that treats the graph as the first-class citizen.
Role
- Product design
- Frontend engineering
Services
- Terminal UX
- Keyboard system
- Charting layer
Client
- Signal Labs
Year
- 2024
Keystrokes to insight
−63%
Daily active use
100% team
01 · Constraint
The mouse should be optional.
Every action reachable by keyboard; every keyboard action discoverable. We designed a command palette that reads like a small language, then wrote the docs inside the app itself.
02 · Layer
Charts that respect the data.
The charting layer refuses to smooth outliers, refuses to auto-fit axes, refuses to lie. Researchers said it was the first tool that felt like it was on their side.
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