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CASE 12 — Logistics · Operations
Design for people working against a clock
Case sheetCase No. 12
- Project
- Design for people working against a clock
- Client
- India's largest logistics company
- Category
- Logistics · Operations
- Year
- 2019–20
- Role
- Senior product designer
- Team
- Product + ops
LeadAmit Chotia2019–20
Logistics · OperationsThe short version
Five products for supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers, drivers and citizens — designed for work that's physical, fast and unforgiving.
Outcome
5
5 products, 9 user roles, one network
The brief
Before Publicis Sapient, I was a senior product designer at India's largest logistics company — designing for people doing physical work against a clock, where a confusing screen costs time on the road, at the dock or at the counter.
I worked with product and operations teams across five products, from supply-partner onboarding to a pandemic-era containment-zone API.
Design for people working against a clock
Before Publicis Sapient, I designed products for India's largest logistics company — for people whose work is physical, fast and unforgiving: supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers and drivers. Five products, one rule: if it costs them a minute, it costs the network a lot more.
Orion: from a phone call to an app
Supply partners bid on loads and align their driver partners. We mapped the task flow from their side — finding the app, logging in with a phone number, the onboarding formality, getting started — and every question along the way: will I have to pay upfront? when will I start seeing requests? can I submit documents later?
The discovery flow went from leads (ads, the website, friends in the same field) to a profile created by the business team, to load requests based on route preferences.


Designed for the screen they actually use
Those questions shaped the screens: a phone-number-and-OTP login, onboarding that tells partners what to expect and how long verification takes, and a landing page that goes straight to load requests matched to their route preferences.


Three people, one order
A hyperlocal delivery service for restaurants: the restaurant manager creates and manages orders; the cluster manager allocates field executives; the customer tracks the order. The cluster view brought orders, available manpower, SLA and top issues — consignee not available, containment zones, bad weather — into one screen.



Traffic control for docks
Traffic controllers schedule inbound and outbound connections at mega-facilities. We designed dock assignment, docking duration, shipment distribution and driver details around one question: which vehicle goes to which dock, now?

Is my location a containment zone?
During the pandemic, we built a dashboard and API so e-commerce platforms could keep delivering, government representatives could verify policy changes, and citizens could check whether their pincode sat in a restricted zone.


Trips, tracked without friction
A driver app for vendor driver partners, designed to promote geolocation for trip monitoring — permissions explained up front, trips and uploads in as few taps as possible.

The result
Five products designed the way the business measures itself — in time on task, and in how few questions a person has to ask before they can get on with the job.
- Take 1
- 5
- Products designed
- Take 2
- 9
- User roles served
- Take 3
- 1
- Pandemic-era API
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CASE 12 — Logistics · Operations
Design for people working against a clock
Case sheetCase No. 12
- Project
- Design for people working against a clock
- Client
- India's largest logistics company
- Category
- Logistics · Operations
- Year
- 2019–20
- Role
- Senior product designer
- Team
- Product + ops
LeadAmit Chotia2019–20
Logistics · OperationsThe short version
Five products for supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers, drivers and citizens — designed for work that's physical, fast and unforgiving.
Outcome
5
5 products, 9 user roles, one network
The brief
Before Publicis Sapient, I was a senior product designer at India's largest logistics company — designing for people doing physical work against a clock, where a confusing screen costs time on the road, at the dock or at the counter.
I worked with product and operations teams across five products, from supply-partner onboarding to a pandemic-era containment-zone API.
Design for people working against a clock
Before Publicis Sapient, I designed products for India's largest logistics company — for people whose work is physical, fast and unforgiving: supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers and drivers. Five products, one rule: if it costs them a minute, it costs the network a lot more.
Orion: from a phone call to an app
Supply partners bid on loads and align their driver partners. We mapped the task flow from their side — finding the app, logging in with a phone number, the onboarding formality, getting started — and every question along the way: will I have to pay upfront? when will I start seeing requests? can I submit documents later?
The discovery flow went from leads (ads, the website, friends in the same field) to a profile created by the business team, to load requests based on route preferences.


Designed for the screen they actually use
Those questions shaped the screens: a phone-number-and-OTP login, onboarding that tells partners what to expect and how long verification takes, and a landing page that goes straight to load requests matched to their route preferences.


Three people, one order
A hyperlocal delivery service for restaurants: the restaurant manager creates and manages orders; the cluster manager allocates field executives; the customer tracks the order. The cluster view brought orders, available manpower, SLA and top issues — consignee not available, containment zones, bad weather — into one screen.



Traffic control for docks
Traffic controllers schedule inbound and outbound connections at mega-facilities. We designed dock assignment, docking duration, shipment distribution and driver details around one question: which vehicle goes to which dock, now?

Is my location a containment zone?
During the pandemic, we built a dashboard and API so e-commerce platforms could keep delivering, government representatives could verify policy changes, and citizens could check whether their pincode sat in a restricted zone.


Trips, tracked without friction
A driver app for vendor driver partners, designed to promote geolocation for trip monitoring — permissions explained up front, trips and uploads in as few taps as possible.

The result
Five products designed the way the business measures itself — in time on task, and in how few questions a person has to ask before they can get on with the job.
- Take 1
- 5
- Products designed
- Take 2
- 9
- User roles served
- Take 3
- 1
- Pandemic-era API
1Next · 13Open caseNext case · 13 / 13
One system across 14 products
Restaurant SaaS · Product · Design system · 2019
A design system shared across fourteen products, including point-of-sale, plus a rework of the CRM's most complex tasks.
CASE 12 — Logistics · Operations
Design for people working against a clock
Case sheetCase No. 12
- Project
- Design for people working against a clock
- Client
- India's largest logistics company
- Category
- Logistics · Operations
- Year
- 2019–20
- Role
- Senior product designer
- Team
- Product + ops
LeadAmit Chotia2019–20
Logistics · OperationsThe short version
Five products for supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers, drivers and citizens — designed for work that's physical, fast and unforgiving.
Outcome
5
5 products, 9 user roles, one network
The brief
Before Publicis Sapient, I was a senior product designer at India's largest logistics company — designing for people doing physical work against a clock, where a confusing screen costs time on the road, at the dock or at the counter.
I worked with product and operations teams across five products, from supply-partner onboarding to a pandemic-era containment-zone API.
Design for people working against a clock
Before Publicis Sapient, I designed products for India's largest logistics company — for people whose work is physical, fast and unforgiving: supply partners, cluster managers, traffic controllers and drivers. Five products, one rule: if it costs them a minute, it costs the network a lot more.
Orion: from a phone call to an app
Supply partners bid on loads and align their driver partners. We mapped the task flow from their side — finding the app, logging in with a phone number, the onboarding formality, getting started — and every question along the way: will I have to pay upfront? when will I start seeing requests? can I submit documents later?
The discovery flow went from leads (ads, the website, friends in the same field) to a profile created by the business team, to load requests based on route preferences.


Designed for the screen they actually use
Those questions shaped the screens: a phone-number-and-OTP login, onboarding that tells partners what to expect and how long verification takes, and a landing page that goes straight to load requests matched to their route preferences.


Three people, one order
A hyperlocal delivery service for restaurants: the restaurant manager creates and manages orders; the cluster manager allocates field executives; the customer tracks the order. The cluster view brought orders, available manpower, SLA and top issues — consignee not available, containment zones, bad weather — into one screen.



Traffic control for docks
Traffic controllers schedule inbound and outbound connections at mega-facilities. We designed dock assignment, docking duration, shipment distribution and driver details around one question: which vehicle goes to which dock, now?

Is my location a containment zone?
During the pandemic, we built a dashboard and API so e-commerce platforms could keep delivering, government representatives could verify policy changes, and citizens could check whether their pincode sat in a restricted zone.


Trips, tracked without friction
A driver app for vendor driver partners, designed to promote geolocation for trip monitoring — permissions explained up front, trips and uploads in as few taps as possible.

The result
Five products designed the way the business measures itself — in time on task, and in how few questions a person has to ask before they can get on with the job.
- Take 1
- 5
- Products designed
- Take 2
- 9
- User roles served
- Take 3
- 1
- Pandemic-era API
1Next · 13Open caseNext case · 13 / 13
One system across 14 products
Restaurant SaaS · Product · Design system · 2019
A design system shared across fourteen products, including point-of-sale, plus a rework of the CRM's most complex tasks.
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Gurgaon · IST
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Let's build the next best experience.
Gurgaon · IST
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