F*IT Dashboard Design Explorations

Ten competing app-shell + dashboard-home concepts, one shared fixture dataset (Zen Window Cleaning, Friday 3 July 2026). Each is a different organising idea, not a reskin. Desktop-first at 1440px. Full narrative + decisions: VISUAL-DIARY.md.

Round 4 — the converged direction

08 v4 — lead candidate

Map Ops: Altitude Model

Calendar-primary. Month territory ledger is home; WEEK raises the map with ghost pins; DAY is ground level with the full route. Zoom is the only navigation primitive; booking-call mode spans all altitudes.

month homealtitude zoombooking-call

Round 3 — availability lens (booking-call mode)

Every day cell reads time-fill at a glance (7am-5pm booked vs open); one click drills to bookable slots; a working find-a-slot mode for booking while on the phone.

08 v3 — standout

Map Ops + "Land a job"

Fill-strips on ledger + scrubber; find-a-slot highlights fitting days on both surfaces with candidate start times.

booking-call mode 03 v3

Money Cockpit: capacity as inventory

Open hours priced as unsold stock (95h = ~$17,300); find-a-slot shows what each booking adds to July.

booking-call mode 07 v3

Ask the Office: book mid-call

Ask the Dispatcher while the customer talks; tappable day+time chips pencil a hold awaiting sign-off.

booking-call mode

Round 2 — winners, calendar-centric

Rhys's top 3 revised with the schedule as a first-class surface (full July fixture month, $21,340 / 41 jobs). 08 is the standout.

08 v2 — standout

Map Ops: Where + When

Working day-scrubber re-renders the route per day; full-month "territory ledger" overlay with revenue heat, gap days, rain risk.

time scrubbermonth overlay 03 v2

Money Cockpit: Revenue Calendar

The month as a financial instrument - day dollar values, revenue heat, gap days priced as lost capacity.

revenue heatmonth + week 07 v2

Ask the Office: Dispatcher's Calendar

The month as the office's biggest answer; reschedule-by-conversation with sign-off round-trip onto the grid.

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Round 1 — the original ten

01

Mission Control

Dense dark command centre. Every gauge on one screen, zero scroll, Bloomberg-terminal energy.

darkdensepro voice 02

IA organised around your 16 AI staff. Home is the morning stand-up; approvals are a sign-off sheet.

lightpersona-ledfull cheek 03

Finance-led. Cash position is the hero; every signal framed by dollar impact. Fintech aesthetic.

lightfinance-firstpro voice 04

Time is the axis. Today as a horizontal timeline with route + weather woven in.

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The Morning Brief

Your dashboard as a daily newspaper The Secretary typeset overnight. Editorial serif.

editorialnarrativecheeky masthead 06

The approvals queue IS the dashboard. One decision at centre stage, keyboard-first.

focuseddecision-machineneutral 07

Conversational shell. A big ask bar plus answer cards your agents pre-prepared.

AI-nativechat-ledmixed voice 08

Territory as canvas. Full-bleed Gold Coast map with jobs, leads, and rank intel pinned.

dark cartogeographiclight cheek 09

The anti-dashboard. One number, one call to action, progressive disclosure for the rest.

minimalit's handledwarm 10

The Shed Whiteboard

The shed-wall whiteboard, digitised. Magnet cards, marker headings, sticky notes from the crew.

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