Reclaiming the Screen: How We Fixed Our Navigation
Cutting the UI Tax to give users back 90% of their workspace.
— the problem—
At Engineer’s Cradle, our dashboard was feeling claustrophobic. We’re a data-heavy platform where users manage CRM leads and track orders etc,—basically, they need to see a lot of info at once to do their jobs. The old design was eating up way too much space.
hidden critical data
The 50% workspace constraint pushed primary workflow triggers below the fold. Users were trapped in cycle of constant vertical and horizontal scrolling to access details and mandatory actions buttons.
