Overview
This project is currently in development and its screens are under NDA, so this case study describes the design without showing them.
Identity and access management decides who can do what, and on which part of the infrastructure. Get it wrong one way and someone files a ticket. Get it wrong the other way and nobody finds out until it matters.
In Prism Central, the console Nutanix customers use to run their private cloud, the model fits in one line: access is a user, plus a role, plus a scope. That works inside one console. Large customers run several, and each one keeps its own users, roles and policies.
This project is the answer to that: author access once, in Nutanix Central, for the whole fleet. I am its lead designer. I work with Monica Poddar, a fellow designer, a PM, and front-end, back-end and API engineers, and I prototyped the more complex features in code.