Redesigning Battery pool's admin SAAS Dashboard

Redesigning Battery pool's admin SAAS Dashboard

How we designed a complex dashboard for a Battery-as-a-service startup which helped it's users swap fully charged battery with an discharged one to keep their EV's moving.

Project type

Project type

NDA

NDA

Company

Company

Batterypool

Batterypool

Location

Location

Pune, IN

Pune, IN

Industry

Industry

Battery-as-a-service

Battery-as-a-service

Role

Role

2 Product Design Interns + Product Manager

2 Product Design Interns + Product Manager

Timeline

Timeline

3 months

3 months

Introduction

Introduction

There were only 2 product design interns with one product manager who were working on the complete revamp of the operator dashboard.

The outcome of the revamped dashboard led to an increase in 34% user engagement

About the Company

About the Company

Batterypool is a company that offers Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions for electric vehicles (EVs). Instead of owning the battery, EV users can rent it from BatteryPool. This model reduces the upfront cost for EV owners and makes EV ownership more accessible.

EV Drivers are the end users who benefit from the battery-swapping or charging services provided by BatteryPool. They pay a subscription fee or per-use charge.

Operators are the entities that manage and operate BatteryPool's battery swapping or charging stations. This could include companies specialising in EV infrastructure or existing businesses looking to diversify. (We worked on the operator dashboard)

Batterypool is a company that offers Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions for electric vehicles (EVs). Instead of owning the battery, EV users can rent it from BatteryPool. This model reduces the upfront cost for EV owners and makes EV ownership more accessible.

EV Drivers are the end users who benefit from the battery-swapping or charging services provided by BatteryPool. They pay a subscription fee or per-use charge.

Operators are the entities that manage and operate BatteryPool's battery swapping or charging stations. This could include companies specialising in EV infrastructure or existing businesses looking to diversify. (We worked on the operator dashboard)

Batterypool is a company that offers Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions for electric vehicles (EVs). Instead of owning the battery, EV users can rent it from BatteryPool. This model reduces the upfront cost for EV owners and makes EV ownership more accessible.

EV Drivers are the end users who benefit from the battery-swapping or charging services provided by BatteryPool. They pay a subscription fee or per-use charge.

Operators are the entities that manage and operate BatteryPool's battery swapping or charging stations. This could include companies specialising in EV infrastructure or existing businesses looking to diversify. (We worked on the operator dashboard)

But how does the whole BAAS (Battery-as-a-service) ecosystem works

But how does the whole BAAS (Battery-as-a-service) ecosystem works

Registered EV Drivers can see on their driver app their nearby swap stations which are monitored by the operators and the drivers can swap their used battery for a charged one after completing the process on their app.

Operators can manage their whole swapstation on our SAAS dashboard. Now the operators did have a dashboard to manage, but it was completely outdated and not great in terms of functionality. I mean we all know well how internal tools are :)

These are all the modules which operators can manage on their Dashboard:

  1. Analytics of their swapstation (metrics of the batteries)

  2. Maps (where the riders are driving currently)

  3. Riders (complete details of the riders i.e license, vehicle registration)

  4. Batteries (add or manage or update the details)

  5. Swapstations

And in this case study we'll just have a glimpse of some modules due to the NDA.

Initials iterations of the swapstation module

Initials iterations of the swapstation module

The issues with these designs were:

  1. Cluttered layout with inconsistent spacing and organization of information. The swapstation status (ONLINE/OFFLINE) and battery details were presented in a compact, almost cramped manner, making it difficult to quickly assess the situation.

  2. Important details such as battery status, station information, and map location were all presented with similar visual weight, causing cognitive overload with lack of information hierarchy.

Redesign of the swapstation module

Breaking down the redesign:

  1. More spacious layout with information hierarchy which helps the operator focus on critical tasks with better visibility

  2. Maps show more relevant metadata with better visibility and bigger widget than the previous design

  3. The main module navigation bar looks more clean with the icons

some more visuals

Can't really show more of the work which I did there because my product manager refused to share it due to the NDA.🙃

Can't really show more of the work which I did there because my product manager refused to share it due to the NDA.🙃

But here are the things which I learned working at Batterypool as a product design intern:

  1. Designing SAAS dashboards is actually hard, not as easy compared to designing for mobile as you have a lot of data visualisation and information dense content.

  2. Most of the internal tools doesn't have a lot of impact because of the userbase being too less.

  3. Working remotely isn't for me, less accountability and no exponential learning; working on-site with real people in your early career is the way to go in my opinion.

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