| Tool | What Worked | What Didn’t | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude | Got me unstuck. Good base layout ideas. | Needed lots of manual pruning. | Great for brainstorming |
| Stitch | Nudged simplicity. | Output wasn’t very usable. | Wasn’t very useful for this project |
| Bolt | Structurally sound. | Clunky, less intuitive for designers. | Great tool, heavily dependent on good prompting |
| Figma Make | Amazing UX. Intuitive layouts. Effortless prototyping. | Mostly nothing. | My first tool to go-to from now on |
Problem:
Zoomcar isn’t just for solo car owners anymore. It's grown to include large business partners. We are talking about hosts managing fleets of 200+ cars. Each of these organisations has multiple managers, each managing a slice of that fleet. But the current “My Cars” tab on the app just wasn’t built for that scale. Tasks like updating bookings or finding car details become frustratingly inefficient at fleet scale. What we needed was a smarter, faster way to manage lots of cars without pulling our hair out.
Solution:
A vendor dashboard for the web. Think: data management at scale, batch operations, and an interface that stays clean even when the data gets messy.
To be fully honest, I have used this project to go full AI-nerd. I tested different text-to-design tools and documented everything. What worked, what sucked, what surprised me. This blog is a reflection of that learning journey.
I was only provided a vague business requirement doc initially. No direction, no design—just a list of features that needed to be on the dashboard. So I turned to Claude.
The prompt was essentially just the doc and some more context about the problem.
Claude’s Output:
Takeaway:
Claude gave me a decent skeletal structure, some good ideas, some bloated extras. But it was enough to get me started. AI's only as good as your prompt, and this made that very clear.
Building off Claude’s structure, I whipped up a first draft of the dashboard focused on **Bookings, Cars, and Pricing (**the core v0 functionality).
We ditched the homepage (not enough to show yet) and kept things minimal, with alerts and filters for fast nav. This version worked, but felt off still.
Around this time, Google launched Stitch, their AI UI explorer. I tossed in my newly acquired PRD (finally) and waited for a better direction.
Result:
