Color Changes

{
  "id": "TRIZ-32",
  "title": "Color Changes",
  "intent": "Improve understanding, control, and reaction speed by making system states and risks immediately visible.",
  "triz_principle": {
    "number": 32,
    "name": "Color Changes",
    "definition": "Change the color or visual characteristics of an object to improve visibility, contrast, or information perception."
  },
  "problem_understanding": {
    "core_contradiction": "We need awareness and control, but critical information is hidden in logs, reports, or complex tools.",
    "why_this_hurts": "When signals are hard to see, reactions are slow, mistakes repeat, and issues escalate before anyone notices.",
    "typical_signals": [
      "problems discovered only after incidents",
      "dashboards that require expert interpretation",
      "important states buried in logs or tables",
      "teams arguing about system health"
    ]
  },
  "solution_logic": {
    "core_idea": "Make important states visually obvious and hard to ignore.",
    "key_rule": "Expose meaning, not raw data.",
    "how_it_resolves_the_contradiction": "Fast visual recognition enables early action without deep analysis."
  },
  "application_patterns": {
    "consulting": [
      "traffic-light status for initiatives and risks",
      "visual decision boards instead of text-heavy reports",
      "heatmaps for priority and impact"
    ],
    "software_engineering": [
      "status indicators and health checks",
      "log levels with clear severity signals",
      "visual diff tools for configuration changes"
    ],
    "architecture": [
      "observability dashboards with clear thresholds",
      "visual alerts instead of raw metric streams",
      "service health maps"
    ],
    "enterprise_sap": [
      "MDG workflow status indicators",
      "data quality heatmaps by object or attribute",
      "replication status dashboards with severity levels"
    ]
  },
  "anti_patterns": [
    "too many colors with no clear meaning",
    "visual noise instead of clarity",
    "cosmetic indicators disconnected from real risk"
  ],
  "usage_guidance": {
    "use_when": [
      "reaction time matters",
      "non-experts need situational awareness",
      "hidden problems cause major damage"
    ],
    "do_not_use_when": [
      "decisions require deep analysis anyway",
      "visualization oversimplifies complex trade-offs"
    ]
  },
  "diagnostic_questions": [
    "What should be instantly visible?",
    "Which states currently require explanation?",
    "How could risk be seen before it is felt?"
  ],
  "example": {
    "before": "Data quality issues are visible only in detailed reports.",
    "after": "A color-coded dashboard highlights critical issues immediately."
  },
  "meta": {
    "schema": "dkharlanau.dataset.byte",
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "dataset": "TRIZ-bytes",
    "source_project": "cv-ai",
    "source_path": "TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-32.json",
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "creator": {
      "name": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau",
      "role": "SAP Lead",
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "attribution": {
      "attribution_required": true,
      "preferred_citation": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau (SAP Lead). Dataset bytes: https://dkharlanau.github.io"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "",
      "spdx": "",
      "url": ""
    },
    "links": {
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "contact": {
      "preferred": "linkedin",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "canonical_url": "https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-32.json",
    "created_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "updated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T15:29:02+00:00",
    "provenance": {
      "source_type": "chat_export_extraction",
      "note": "Extracted and curated by Dzmitryi Kharlanau; enriched for attribution and crawler indexing."
    },
    "entity_type": "triz_byte",
    "entity_subtype": "",
    "summary": "Improve understanding, control, and reaction speed by making system states and risks immediately visible."
  }
}