Seller Dashboard — Automobile — product design by Vasudev Maliyakkal
Case study / 13 — Dashboard · E-Commerce

SELLER HUB automobile dashboard.

A streamlined seller dashboard for automobile management — catalog, orders and performance in one calm workspace.

Role
UI/UX Designer
Platforms
Web · Dashboard
Category
Dashboard · E-Commerce
Type
Seller Management
Tools
Figma

OVERVIEWThe idea

The seller side of the Automarto marketplace: a workspace where vendors manage catalog, orders, and performance without a training manual.

THE PROBLEMWhat had to be solved

Marketplace sellers are busy operators, not analysts. Every extra click on inventory or orders costs them real money.

MY ROLEWhat I owned

Dashboard IA, inventory and order-management flows, performance views and the table/card system underneath.

DESIGN PROCESSFrom idea to interface

01 Seller task research
02 Workspace IA
03 Inventory flows
04 Order management
05 Performance views
06 High-fidelity UI

KEY DECISIONSWhat made it work

📦

Inventory at a glance

Stock, compatibility and status in one scannable table.

🔔

Exception-first alerts

The dashboard surfaces only what needs action.

💰

Revenue clarity

Earnings and fees explained without a spreadsheet.

🧩

Shared design system

Consistent with the buyer experience for one brand feel.

RESEARCH & INSIGHTSWhat shaped the direction

Discovery focused on the jobs users hire the product for: what decision does this screen serve, what action follows, what can wait behind a click. Auditing comparable SaaS tools showed the same trap everywhere — dashboards that display everything and prioritise nothing.

🚦

Action first, data second

Users open the product to do something. The landing view must answer “what needs me today?” before showing anything else.

📉

Density needs hierarchy

Dense tables are fine — undifferentiated dense tables are not. Summary first, detail on demand.

🧭

Predictability is speed

In daily-use tools, users get fast by building muscle memory; consistent patterns are a performance feature.

WHO IT'S FORDesigning for real people

PRIMARYThe daily operator

Lives in the product, values speed and keyboard-friendly flows, and notices every inconsistency. Needs dense-but-ordered screens that reward familiarity.

SECONDARYThe occasional decision-maker

Drops in weekly for status and numbers. Needs summaries, trends and export — without relearning the interface each visit.

DESIGN LANGUAGEThe visual system

A restrained interface where colour means something: neutrals for structure, one accent for primary actions, and semantic colour reserved for status. Tables use progressive disclosure, cards summarise before they detail, and every component comes from a documented library so new screens ship consistent by default.

Semantic colour only
Progressive-disclosure tables
Summary-then-detail cards
Documented component library
Keyboard-friendly flows

TESTING & ITERATIONPressure-testing the design

Prototypes were tested against realistic data volumes — hundreds of rows, awkward edge cases, long names — because SaaS designs that demo well often collapse under real data. Iterations tightened empty states, loading states and error states, the three screens teams usually forget.

PROJECT SCREENSInside the design

Seller Dashboard — Automobile — interface screen 01 01
Seller Dashboard — Automobile — interface screen 02 02
Seller Dashboard — Automobile — interface screen 03 03
Seller Dashboard — Automobile — interface screen 04 04

Each screen pans on its own — scroll sideways for more

OUTCOMEThe result

A seller hub that runs a parts business at a glance — see it on Behance. (Companion to the Automarto buyer case study.)

View full project on Behance

KEY LEARNINGSWhat I'd carry forward

01 Design with real data volumes from day one; lorem ipsum lies.
02 Empty, loading and error states are where products feel professional — or don’t.
03 A dashboard’s job is decisions per minute, not charts per screen.
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