🚗 Automotive Dealer Operations Platform

🚗 Automotive Dealer Operations Platform

A digital platform designed to streamline car service booking, dealer operations, and customer experience through an end-to-end, user-centric system.

Industry

Auto-Fintech

Year

2025-2026

Project Overview

The project focused on creating a scalable and intuitive dealer platform that simplifies service scheduling, inventory visibility, and operational workflows while improving transparency and convenience for customers.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Owned end-to-end UX strategy and UI design

  • Conducted requirement analysis with stakeholders

  • Defined user flows, IA, and design standards

  • Delivered wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and design handoff

  • Collaborated closely with product and development teams

Workflow

1. Research & Discovery

Before jumping into design, I focused on understanding the problem space and user expectations.


  • Analysed existing Dealer Management Systems (DMS) and car dealer platforms

  • Reviewed competitor platforms to identify usability gaps and opportunities

  • Studied real-world dealer workflows such as service scheduling, inventory handling, and customer communication

  • Identified key user roles: Dealer, Consumer, and System Admin

2. UX Strategy & Information Architecture


  • Defined clear user journeys for each role

  • Structured the platform navigation to reduce complexity and multi-click actions

  • Mapped critical scenarios such as service availability conflicts, time-slot limitations, and inventory pricing logic

3. Wireframing & UI Design


  • Created low-fidelity wireframes to validate flows early

  • Designed high-fidelity screens aligned with a modern, scalable UI system

  • Focused on clarity, accessibility, and decision-making support for users

  • Designed dashboards, alerts, analytics views, and transactional screens

4. Validation & Iteration


  • Iterated designs based on stakeholder feedback

  • Refined edge cases, empty states, error messages, and system alerts

  • Ensured the final design was development-ready and scalable for future features

Contact

chetanrodke333@gmail.com

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