Real-Time Intelligence
Microsoft
A core capability within Microsoft Fabric that processes live streaming data to deliver real-time insights within seconds across industries.
From Editing → Understanding
In today’s data-driven world, organizations need the ability to analyze and act on data as it flows in real time. Microsoft Fabric provides a powerful ecosystem for real-time intelligence, enabling businesses to process, store, analyze, and visualize data with minimal latency. In this blog I will introduce you to the key components that make real-time intelligence possible in Microsoft Fabric, giving you a high-level understanding of how they work together.
The product designer role
As a Product Designer for Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence, I had the unique opportunity to shape the evolution of the product. When I joined the team, "Kusto" was primarily an internal Microsoft utility. While highly functional and deeply technical, it was designed for internal experts rather than external enterprise users.
My core mission was to lead the user experience transformation necessary to take this complex, heavy-lifting technology and prepare it for General Availability (GA) in the global market.
Design Process & Execution
Driving this product revolution meant completely reimagining the user journey and owning the design of the platform’s first low-code experience.
I translated highly complex data querying workflows, specifically involving the Kusto Query Language (KQL), into clear, visual, and engaging interfaces.
I initiated a comprehensive design process, focusing on end-to-end flow planning to understand the pain points, mental models, and expectations of external data analysts and engineers. The primary challenge was bridging the gap between Kusto’s immense, real-time computational power and the need for a frictionless experience that felt native to the broader Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.