ECS App: Home Page Redesign

UI Enhancement for Clearer Task Monitoring & Maintenance Tracking

Overview

The Electronic Complaint System (ECS) is UTM’s internal mobile application used to manage campus maintenance tasks. It supports supervisors, facility managers, and vendors by streamlining complaint submissions, work order processing, and task tracking. This is also one of the mobile application I responsible for during my internship at UTMDigital.

I was assigned to improve the home dashboard UI after users reported confusion around the statistics and task summaries. The goal was to redesign the interface so supervisors and managers and vendors could immediately understand their workload and recent activities without navigating through multiple screens.

My Role

UI/UX Design · Frontend Development (Ionic Framework)

Process & Contribution

I redesigned the ECS homepage by focusing on clarity and usability:

  • Analyzed the existing dashboard and identified issues with hierarchy, spacing, and data grouping.
  • Reorganized the statistics into a clearer visual structure, using a more intuitive layout for complaints, work orders, and their statuses.
  • Updated the overall interface to match UTM’s modern design direction and improve readability.
  • Developed the redesigned UI in Ionic, ensuring the new layout maintained responsiveness and matched real-time API data.
  • Collaborated with the backend developer to test data bindings and display logic.

The image below shows the original dashboard UI, design improvement and final UI.

Design Context & Reflections

For this project, the client responded positively to the overall layout and content arrangement, noting that it feels much cleaner and more simplified compared to the original design.

Regarding the background color gradient, there were limited opportunities for change at the time. Since my work focused primarily on redesigning the homepage and assisting with minor debugging, the gradient remained as-is, which suited the project constraints.

Looking back, if given the chance to revisit the design, I would likely recommend moving away from the gradient in favor of a more modern background approach. Additionally, now that I am more aware of accessibility considerations, I would adjust the font colors used for displaying numerical data in the dashboard to improve readability for all users.

Impact

Although my internship ended before I could see the deployment, the redesign aimed to:

  • Improve at-a-glance comprehension of key stats for supervisors and facility managers.
  • Reduce user confusion caused by unclear or duplicated data components.
  • Provide a cleaner, more structured dashboard aligned with other UTM mobile modules.
  • Enhance the workflow by making monitoring tasks faster and more intuitive for different user groups.

The new layout creates a more modern and efficient first-screen experience for daily maintenance operations.