Northgate Equipment Services
Context
A regional equipment service business coordinates mobile technicians across changing schedules and varied customer sites.
The problem
Dispatchers pieced together availability, parts, and job notes across disconnected screens. Technicians often called for context that should have traveled with the job.
Our approach
We shadowed dispatch and field teams, mapped the real exception paths, then tested a mobile-first job flow with both roles before engineering began.
Selected deliverables
Dispatch board; technician task view; job history; handoff notes; responsive field interface.
Timeline
10 weeks / discovery 2 weeks, design 3 weeks, build and pilot 5 weeks.
Scheduling time down 26% in the pilot; clearer technician handoffs; mobile task completion up 19 percentage points. Client-reported pilot measures, not independently audited.
Ready for next action
CLEAR / OWNED / MOVING
Original interface composition / illustrative, not a client screenshot