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Google Cloud Platform Icon Library for Architecture Diagrams
- atarian 10y agoThe icons look way too similar. In fact, the only way to distinguish one from another is by the glyphs. This begs the question: what purpose does the blue hexagon serve besides aesthetics? As @bowmessage mentioned, couldn't you have a color for each family of service?
- nealmueller 10y agoGood feedback–and rational. I'll ask the designer to consider removing the blue hexagon and making the icons glyphs. The design predates me. There might be an equally rational explanation for why it is the way it is, and it's worth asking.
- Rezo 10y agoI think the hexagon is OK and immediately tells me this is a GCP diagram. It also helps in aligning things when drawing on a grid and creates a unified style. I would however suggest to differentiate the services by color-coding the background: blue for Compute, red for Storage and DB, orange for Machine Learning etc. This will make it easier to take in the diagrams at a glance.
- nealmueller 10y agoHere's what design told me, "In the diagrams context - the blue hexagon represents GCP product. The goal is to differentiate GCP from other products and services." My read on this is that blue hexagons makes sense in the context of a heterogenous architecture, but the blue hexagons do not provide value (as you note) if your diagram is all GCP.
- mkj 10y agoI suspect originally when there were only a few services the glyphs were distinct enough.
- arno_v 10y agoI totally agree, I have a few shortcuts in my GCE dashboard, but I seem to always forget which one is which. For instance logs, DNS and storage have super similar icons.
- nealmueller 10y agoThis is one of my 20% projects at Google. AMA.
- dukky 10y agoNot sure if the 'diagram examples' at the bottom of the page is supposed to have links, but it doesn't.
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- nealmueller 10y agoEach of those diagrams are in the Slides and Powerpoint. There was no immediately clean way to link them (we staged it but ended up removing it). Good suggestion, I think we'll be adding links to Slide pages soon once we are certain we can do it in a clean way.
- davidjgraph 10y agoCan we put the icons and example diagrams into draw.io?
- bowmessage 10y agoWhy did you choose to go with all blue? Could some color could help identify a service's 'family'?
- georgewfraser 10y agoThere's a trade-off between using Google Slides (familiarity, non-flowchart features) and LucidChart (more flowchart features). In your experience, when is it worth it to use LucidChart versus Google Slides?
- nealmueller 10y agoI'm one of the GCP icon library people, but I'm not a collaboration tool expert. With that said, I have tons of tool opinions, as I'm sure many knowledge workers do. Here's my tips on when to use which tool. #1 use a collaborative tool #2 use a collaborative tool that all your collaborators will use easily #3 use a collaborative tool that makes you very efficient Lucidchart and other specialized tools will make you more efficient for diagramming because they have snap-to and other pro features, but they won't pass test #2 for some places. That's why we gave you both versions. What version, templates and tools would you like us to add? Draw.io? Any others?
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- HansGruber 10y agoWho created the diagram examples? Are these architecture suggestions?
- nealmueller 10y agoThese examples were created by GCP for the GCPNext 2016 event. There were used to start discussions for user needs. Experts in the specific verticals were consulted in developing the diagrams, but they are not recommended or validated designs--not detailed enough. The diagrams are intended to spark discussions, and so you don't have to start from scratch.
- milesward 10y agoI did several of them, most come from the GCP Solutions Architecture team. AMA!
- alexgolive 10y agoAre these icons public domain (or free to use in another way)?
- ucaetano 10y agoFrom the presentation: "The Products and Services logos may be used to accurately reference Google's technology and tools."
- RandyRanderson 10y agoFrom the readme.txt in the dl: 'The Products and Services logos may be used to accurately reference Google's technology and tools. Please see www.google.com/permissions for use of Google brand assets and trademarks.' From that link: 'All of our brand features are protected by applicable trademark, copyright and other intellectual property laws. If you would like to use any of our brand features on your website, in an ad, in an article or book, or reproduce them anywhere else, or in any other medium, you'll need to receive permission from Google first.'
- itazula 10y agoAre the icons available with notations in other languages?
- nealmueller 10y agoNot yet, it's a great idea. What language would you like?
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- throwaway31338 10y agoI really like the icons, and I do mean this to be funny. I just couldn't resist creating Malicious Cloud Service[1] and Dead API[2]. SVG's available at [3]. [1] http://imgur.com/a/VY6ba http://imgur.com/a/VY6ba [2] http://imgur.com/a/U0wVW http://imgur.com/a/U0wVW [3] https://ufile.io/4de3f https://ufile.io/4de3f
- nealmueller 10y agoThese would never be useful to me, because I've never had anything go wrong – said no one ever! Hah. I love these.