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Atlas Freight

One dispatcher now runs 3× the lanes

Six windows across two monitors, everything at equal weight. We rebuilt the load board as an exception surface.

Atlas Freight — One dispatcher now runs 3× the lanes
Industry
Logistics
Year
2024
Services
Design system, Dashboard design, Front-end handoff
Team
Design lead, Dashboard designer, Front-end engineer

The challenge

Atlas dispatchers ran six windows across two monitors. The load board showed everything at equal weight, so a truck three hours late looked exactly like one running on time. Training a new dispatcher took eleven weeks, mostly spent memorising where things were.

Our approach

  1. 01Treated the board as an exception surface rather than a data table
  2. 02Compressed normal loads to a single quiet line; off-plan loads expand with context
  3. 03Introduced a monospace numeric scale and four severity states
  4. 04Added a keyboard-first command layer to replace window juggling
  5. 05Shipped tokens and React components alongside the design

Results

Lanes handled per dispatcher
11 → 4
Weeks to onboard a dispatcher
0
Redlines needed at handoff

In the client's words

We asked for a redesign of the load board. What we got was a different idea about what the board is for.

Priya Nadkarni · Head of Operations, Atlas Freight

Outcome

  • 3× the lanes per dispatcher
  • Dispatcher onboarding from eleven weeks to four
  • Zero redlines needed at handoff