I am currently working on a pet project to port and redesign a native Windows-based app onto the web. It acts as a booking aggregator, providing a platform for service operators to bid, share, and trade jobs. A brief summary of the app is as follows:
- In order to acquire a job, the operator places a bid on a plot by selecting an item from the listview and clicking on the bid button.
- Once done, the operator's bid is placed in a queue, and details of their bid pops up in the positions box. The details of the job are not revealed to the user at this stage.
- Once the operator has been allocated a job, details of the job pop up in the job tray box. To maintain fairness in the system, the details of the job are revealed to the user at this stage.
I showed what I have designed so far to several taxi companies for feedback. Although they liked the idea, they told me that the overall UI/UX was rather cumbersome, and the whole process was mentally taxing especially when they processed more than 1 bid.
I still want to keep the bid-process-allocate process intact as it is an inherent part of the app. But I am not sure how I can design the workflow to make it more easier to use for the user. Keeping in mind that I am redesigning the app for the web, can anyone suggest how I can improve the workflow and design of the application to decrease the cognitive load on the user?
