/documd-visuals

Simple Grid — Approved Internal Tooling (Infographic)

Best for: a flat inventory where every item has equal weight and nothing is sequential Avoid when: the items have an order, a hierarchy or per-item numbers Answers: what the standard toolset is, and what each item is responsible for

infographic list-grid-simple
theme
  colorPrimary #2b66c4
  palette
    - #2b66c4
    - #2f9e44
    - #f3a33c
    - #d1242f
    - #7048e8
    - #0f9b9b
    - #c16f8a
    - #7c5a3d
data
  title Approved Internal Tooling
  desc The default stack for new services — anything else needs a waiver
  lists
    - label Observability
      desc OpenTelemetry traces, Prometheus metrics, Loki logs
    - label CI/CD
      desc Shared pipeline templates with signed artifacts
    - label Secrets
      desc Vault-backed injection, no long-lived credentials
    - label Feature flags
      desc Percentage rollout with per-tenant overrides
    - label Schema migrations
      desc Versioned, backward-compatible, gated in CI
    - label Incident tooling
      desc Paging, on-call rotation, postmortem template

Data Shape

lists with one entry per item and no ordering semantics — the plainest reading of an inventory. Six entries fill the grid evenly; odd counts leave a ragged last row.

Key Options

Pitfalls

• ❌ Using the plainest grid for a prioritised list → ✅ nothing here ranks the items; use list-pyramid or a scored table
• ❌ Items whose descriptions differ wildly in length → ✅ the grid is uniform, so long cells stretch every row
• ❌ Seven or eight entries → ✅ the grid wraps to a second row with no emphasis; group instead
• ❌ Reusing it for categories plus counts → ✅ that is a chart; the list carries names, not magnitudes

Alternatives