Dashboard
2026
Turning workforce complexity into confident decisions
An AI-powered workforce platform helping organizations monitor performance, automate operations, and make faster people decisions from one intelligent workspace.
Overview
Helping HR teams lead with insights, not administration
Aviera reimagines workforce management by bringing employees, hiring, performance, and AI-driven insights into one unified platform. Instead of switching between disconnected HR tools, leaders gain a single workspace to monitor organizational health, automate routine operations, and make faster, more informed decisions.
The Impact
The redesign transformed fragmented HR workflows into a centralized experience where workforce analytics, AI recommendations, and operational actions work together seamlessly. By surfacing the most important information first and embedding AI as contextual guidance, the platform reduced complexity while helping managers respond faster and with greater confidence.
Problem
Workforce decisions were spread across systems instead of insights
As organizations grew, HR teams found themselves managing employees through disconnected tools, spreadsheets, and manual processes. Recruitment lived in one system, performance in another, attendance somewhere else, leaving managers without a clear picture of workforce health. Valuable time was spent collecting information instead of acting on it, while critical signals like burnout risk, hiring delays, declining performance, and attendance issues often surfaced only after they had already become business problems.
01 – Prioritized workforce metrics, 02 – Clearer information hierarchy, 03 – Reduced cognitive load through modular dashboards
Research
Looking beyond HR workflows to understand how workforce decisions actually happen
Rather than collecting feature requests, the research focused on how HR managers, department leaders, and executives make daily workforce decisions. Mapping employee lifecycles, operational bottlenecks, and reporting habits revealed a consistent pattern: the biggest challenge wasn't missing functionality—it was fragmented visibility. Critical information existed across multiple modules, making simple decisions slower and far more reactive than they needed to be.
What I learned
Every research cluster pointed to the same insight: organizations weren't struggling because they lacked HR tools—they were struggling because meaningful workforce signals were scattered across disconnected systems. Managers spent more time gathering context than acting on it. The opportunity wasn't adding more dashboards; it was designing a workspace that surfaced the right insight, at the right moment, with the right level of context to support confident decisions.
"We started with an HR platform, but Riyan helped shape something much bigger. He designed around how leaders make decisions, not how software stores information. The final product gives our teams clarity, confidence, and a single place to understand the health of the entire organization."
CMO & Head of Product, Aviera
Kristen Guevara
Ideation
Designing for decisions, not just information
Once the core problem became clear, the focus shifted from fitting more data onto the screen to helping managers understand what required attention first. Multiple layout directions explored different ways of organizing workforce metrics, AI recommendations, and operational actions until a hierarchy emerged that supported rapid scanning without overwhelming the user. Early wireframes helped validate how information should flow before refining the visual design.
Exploring multiple dashboard hierarchies to balance workforce analytics, AI insights, and operational actions within a single, scalable interface.
Testing interaction flows early
Low-fidelity prototypes were used to evaluate how HR managers, department leads, and executives interpreted the same workforce data. The testing revealed that users naturally looked for organizational health first, followed by actionable recommendations, and finally detailed employee records. This insight shaped a modular hierarchy where high-level metrics, AI-generated insights, and operational workflows remain connected while keeping every screen easy to scan and navigate.
Designs
Designing for clarity at every level of the workforce
The final interface was built around a simple principle: every screen should help users understand the organization's current state before asking them to dive into details. Workforce health, AI recommendations, and operational actions are presented in a consistent hierarchy, allowing HR teams and managers to move from high-level insights to individual employee records without losing context. Every component was designed to support faster decisions with less cognitive effort.
A unified employee management experience where organizational health, workforce actions, and individual employee records remain connected within one consistent hierarchy.
The workflow builder transforms complex HR operations into configurable automation. Hiring, onboarding, approvals, document management, notifications, and employee requests can all be orchestrated through a visual canvas, giving teams the flexibility to automate routine work while maintaining complete operational control.
The executive dashboard brings workforce health, AI insights, operational metrics, and organizational performance into a single workspace, allowing leaders to monitor the business at a glance and act on high-impact priorities without switching between modules.
Lessons
Better decisions come from better prioritization, not more information.
One of the biggest takeaways from this project was that enterprise users don't struggle because they lack data—they struggle because the right information is buried beneath everything else. Early explorations focused on expanding dashboards and adding more operational metrics, but the real breakthrough came from simplifying the decision-making process. By establishing a clear visual hierarchy and surfacing AI insights as contextual guidance, the platform became faster to understand and easier to trust.
If I were to continue evolving Aviera, I'd invest further in proactive intelligence. Rather than waiting for users to interpret dashboards, the platform could explain emerging workforce trends, predict organizational risks, and recommend the next best actions before managers even begin searching for answers. That shift from reporting to guidance is where enterprise AI creates the greatest value.
