A new chart no longer opens on graph paper, dotted axes and curved arrows. The editor draws a faint sketch of the chart you're building — bars, a line, a pie, a funnel, a Sankey, a map — with the places to click at its edges, and every chart type now opens on What do you want to see?. A new KPI says Pick a number right where its number will be. And on the dashboard, a widget you haven't set up yet shows what it will become too.
A table can now total a measure per group instead of listing rows — revenue per store, orders per month and channel — with a totals line, subtotals, and one column per value when you split it. And a click on any line shows the rows behind it.
A table's numbers can now say what they mean in colour — a heatmap, bars, two colours around a target, or just the values that meet a rule — and every column can print the way you read it: a currency, a percent, a month, a code.
A table's editor now reads the way the chart and KPI editors do — the Columns it lists, Only under some conditions, its Sort & limit and its Appearance — with the table beside it, at the size it has on your dashboard.
Every table in Axiome — on a dashboard, in the editors, in Axi's answers — has been redrawn to be read rather than deciphered: numbers line up on the right, dates read as dates, and a click on a header sorts, even when you can only view the dashboard.
A KPI's editor now reads the way the chart editor does — Show a number, Only under some conditions, Compared with something, and its Appearance — with the KPI beside it as the dashboard draws it, and both numbers side by side underneath.
Axi now works inside the chart editor itself: click Ask Axi at the top of the editor and it opens at the foot of the recipe, with the chart already attached. Say what you want changed — drop the split and compare with net revenue — and watch the steps change as Axi works.
The chart editor used to speak the engine's language — X-axis, Y-axis, Color By, CDistinct, Count of Records — and it only took the fields you dragged from a long list of tables. It now reads as a short recipe you complete — Show a measure, Per a breakdown, Split by a category — with the chart beside it, drawn as you go.
A dashboard you were shared used to be a picture: live numbers, but nothing you could do with them. Change the period? Ask what drove a spike? Get told when it moves? All of that meant Edit mode — which most readers don't have, and shouldn't need. View mode now does the reading half of the job properly, and dashboards open in it by default.
Widget titles used to sit on the card's border, floating over the outline — which meant every widget needed a margin above and below it just to give the title somewhere to live. That margin is gone, the title has moved inside the card as its first line, and the whole board has tightened onto one spacing scale. KPIs got a shape of their own along the way.