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Making complex retail workflows clearer for the cloud

The results
  • Stocktake UX direction grounded in discovery and operational roles
  • Clearer user stories and fewer UI bugs
  • Responsive designs and reusable UI patterns for continued product work
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Modernise the workflow while preserving its depth

Triquestra was modernising a complex retail platform for the cloud. The challenge was to rethink operational tasks while preserving the domain detail people relied on.

I led product discovery, workflow and interaction design, prototyping, validation and UI direction. Stocktake provided a concrete journey through setup, counting, progress and discrepancy review.

Stocktake review with product discrepancy details
Triquestra stocktake overview design

One journey from setup to review

The design connects creating a stocktake, tracking its status, counting on the shop floor and reviewing discrepancies before acceptance.

Different roles and stages require different information. The experience makes those needs visible while keeping the workflow connected.

Discovery: understand the operation

The Miro work mapped role needs across head office, the shop floor and back-office review. The current experience audit identified unclear actions, overwhelming filters and difficulty finding variance.

These findings informed clearer entry points, simpler work states and a focused discrepancy review.

Discovery evidence summarised from the Miro role needs and current experience audit
Readable redraw of scheduled and ad-hoc stocktake routes from the Miro board

Plan the alternatives before the screens

Scheduled and ad-hoc stocktakes need different setup routes, then converge on the same counting task. Mapping those paths clarified the structure before wireframing.

The planning retained department, subdepartment, class and stock count groups. The diagram is a readability redraw of the original Miro flow.

Key decision: review before acceptance

Discovery identified the need to make discrepancies visible. The design separates count progress from stock and value variance, with uncounted, unmatched and matched views for targeted review.

Acceptance remains an explicit step after review. The goal was a considered operational decision, with access to the full stocktake retained.

Stocktake review with product discrepancy details
Mobile stocktake scanning counting and deletion confirmation

Make counting work on the shop floor

The mobile flow connects scanning or entering a product, choosing a location and adjusting quantity. Staff can inspect and correct counted items, with an explicit checkpoint before deleting a count.

Reusable foundations behind the experience

Shared foundations, controls and composed patterns support the stocktake experience. Reusable states, inputs, tables, navigation and cards give the team a consistent basis for continued product work.

Design system overview showing foundations components and composed patterns with the corrected summary badge

The results

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An unintended benefit of the prototypes that were produced for user testing workshops is that our development team have been able to work with them which simplifies the user stories, and means we have fewer UI bugs.
Greg Cantlon
Greg Cantlon
Chief Product Officer, Triquestra (2023)

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