Crossroads Dashboard UI

Aegis Mobility’s Crossroads is an administration and reporting portal for customers who have deployed the distracted-driving combating FleetSafer client to mobile devices in their organizations. Customers use Crossroads for configuring service and getting a read on client activation status and employee driving behavior.

Deployment Monitor (2011–2012)

Deployment Monitor was envisioned as a key module of a Crossroads web dashboard. We knew our customers wanted to verify that the service was in effect and that their employees were driving safely. We also wanted to be demonstrate system functional status in an appealing way.

A dashboard can communicate this status in an appealing way, though our customers had a strong preference for passive notification – “Send me an email, don’t leave it up to me to check your portal.” But since there is still a need for occasional on-demand checking of deployment and activity status, a dashboard was required.

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Since the total number of devices could vary, and there were just a few categories, showing percentages using a pie chart seemed to be the best path forward. An early working model of the pie-chart version of the deployment monitor. Deployment status was more complex than we initially believed. For example, within the devices that were not active, we needed to distinguish between those that had never activated and those that had previously activated. The pie chart was converted to a fixed-height bar in this wireframe. The labels could be placed right beside the relevant section of the bar. The more dire conditions could be given greater prominence by being placed at the top. Styled mockup of the dashboard. I considered not just the layout and appearance but flow from the dashboard to other parts of the UI. Working prototype of the design. As implemented. Due to technical restrictions the administration functions of Crossroads were separated from the reporting functions. The deployment monitor ultimately stood alone.