Once requirements were decided, we began initial concepts. We determined that the amount of information an Equipment Dispatcher would need to see in order to easily assign the orders required a creative solution.
I created the concept of listing “cards” — basically a compact way to represent all the information needed.
Move Cards present in the Move Listing panel on the left. A user can expand or collapse the cards to view more information as needed, and can pick up and drag/drop the cards on to a Transport Crew (which was previously set up in the Transport Crews template).
We built out the Move Planner grid as a series of “Stops”, a way to communicate where a Transport Crew will be going. It’s an easy and effective way to build out a Transport Crew’s day. Stops can be subsequent or built on top of each other, and can easily edited and changed.