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WorkDec 2025 — ongoingDaimler

Easier truck fleet management

My Garage went from 5% of customers to 100% overnight, and it was never designed for the other 95%.

scale
5% → 100%
of customers, overnight
change
2 of 3
data structures sized for year three
constraint
1
much shorter timeline than the design

my part

the only designer: requirements, screens and the AI prototypescrit with the wider design team; shipped with product, engineering and the businessshipped

The business opened My Garage to everyone with an account. Overnight it went from about 5% of customers to 100%, and the new people couldn’t find the information they cared about.

That made sense. The page was built to show a little information to a small group we already knew.

Design the big version, then cut

I started over. With input from existing customers, I designed a future state that could hold everything a fleet cares about: service history, warranty status, parts compatibility and downtime, with room to grow.

Then I cut it down, and kept cutting, until we had something we could ship on a much shorter timeline.

Still open

  • How much of a truck’s history is useful, and how much is just alarming?
  • Does a fleet manager want to shop from this page, or only diagnose from it?
  • What happens when the warranty system behind it is hours out of date?