TeamPulse — design directions
These are three clickable prototypes of the same four screens, with made-up applicants, built 2026-10-03. Each one is a different idea of how the hiring team's day should be laid out; the data, screens and companies are the same in all three.
How to use them
- Each one opens in JCruz Express colors. The switch inside flips it to Kept Staffed.
- The small square beside each company name is where that company's logo will go.
- Open them on your phone, or use Phone view on a desktop to see the phone layout in a frame.
- The four screens are Home (the follow-up queue), Applicant (the card), Messages and Dashboard. Tapping works: open a card, log a touch, change a status, send a message, filter by location. Nothing is saved; reload and it resets.
Desk
A work desk for people who clear a queue all day: one dense list sorted by how late each person is, with a big days-over number beside every row, and on a desktop the day's tasks and new leads sit next to the queue, so it is the most complete work screen of the three. What is left is small: pick one location on the dashboard and the new-applicants row shows an empty tinted block beside its single figure, and on a 360-wide phone the status chip pinned to the card cuts off the longest status name.
Split
A three-pane workbench like a good mail app: it opens on your own overdue people, the applicant card opens beside the list so you never lose your place, and on a phone every action is one tap with an Undo, including a Log touch bar pinned to the bottom of the card. What is left is small: the Log touch toasts still graze the Mine/Team pill and two in a row cover the "Start with the oldest" link for a few seconds, and on a desktop a metric table scrolled to its end clips the first letter of one column header behind the sticky Location column.
Day
A day planner: a big date, a sentence that says how the morning stands, a done-and-left bar, and the follow-ups sitting at "Now" on a time rail down the left; the dashboard reads like a written briefing, and it is the one nobody would mistake for an off-the-shelf admin screen. What is left is small: the bigger tap targets make each phone queue row tall enough that only about four overdue people fit on one screen, and at tablet width the carried task's "was due" note wraps onto a second line.
What the judges said
Three separate reviews, each from a different seat, on screenshots and click-throughs in both companies at phone and desktop widths.
- As a hiring VA on a phone all day (ranked B, C, A)
- Split (B) is the one I would miss the fewest follow-ups with, because it opens on my own overdue people and every action is one tap with an Undo; Day's "what kind of touch" sheet is worth borrowing into whichever wins, and the real queue is about 390 people, so the winner needs the "mine" filter, search and location chips first on screen, not as extras.
- As an owner reading the dashboard (ranked C, A, B)
- C reads like a daily briefing written for you, A is a numbers board you scan, and B is a VA work tool where the dashboard is the third thing it does; for the leadership view C and A are close, C on brand feel and telling the story, A on raw FedEx readability on a phone, and each has a one-afternoon fix outstanding that should not decide the pick.
- As a designer checking the brief (ranked C, B, A)
- C (Day) is the recommendation, with B a close second: C is the only one with a real idea of its own and the best phone applicant card, B is the most carefully finished with an excellent pinned phone action bar, and A is the safe choice that looks like a template and treats the phone as an afterthought; whichever you pick, judge it on a phone in your hand first.
Reply with the direction you pick (A, B or C) and anything you want changed, borrowed from another direction, or left out. Nothing gets built until you do.