AI Weekly Malaysia

A photo essay by Marcin Wichary (a designer who has worked at Google, Medium and Figma and wrote a book about keyboards) collecting modular industrial dashboards he saw in German and Polish museums — including an air traffic control display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich and subway/light-rail monitoring panels at Fernmeldemuseum Stuttgart. The panels are built from pluggable modules with buttons and lamps that light up to show status, and Wichary openly states he doesn't know much about them and invites readers to write in with details. The post carries no measurements, schematics, part numbers, or dates — it is images plus commentary.

Why: This is inspiration, not an actionable change: there is no version, price, API, or spec here that alters what you build or deploy. If you are designing monitoring or admin dashboards, the one concrete thing worth copying is the constraint these panels enforced — fixed module slots and lamp-based status instead of a configurable grid of charts — but the author himself says he lacks documentation on how they worked, so treat any architectural lesson as a hypothesis to test, not a proven design finding. No Malaysian or Southeast Asian angle is present in the text.