Ranked: first choice to last
Pancoworld light
White sticky header, pill buttons, eyebrow labels and 8px line cards. The extranet's own tokens (navy, ink, blue, yellow, soft wash) on today's modules, nothing added and nothing removed.
The cleanest answer to the brief: it reads as pancoworld.com at first glance and every control sits where members expect it.
Current home, pancoworld.com style
Built from the prompt "change the current design to one that looks more similar to www.pancoworld.com, without changing any functionality": same modules, buttons and links, sidebar in today's order; the extranet's white header with the colour logo, pill buttons, 8px cards and heavy headings.
Same brief, same safety; a little plainer than 01 in the header and the cards, which is also why it would be the quickest to build.
Editorial hero
A photo band with the site's hero typography, a navy sidebar rail and numbered cards. Same controls as today, presented like the extranet's front page.
Strong and on-brand; the hero band replaces the event banner well. The numbered cards are decoration, and the band costs one screen of height.
Community board
A soft gradient wash, a big greeting with an outlined word, and the news as the site's story grid. Same modules, buttons and links as today, plus a three-figure strip under the greeting.
Warm and very readable. The greeting and the figure strip are small additions to the brief, so it needs a word from the network office before it could be the go-live look.
Current home, Kinetic Light
The same brief in the language of the Kinetic Light direction for pancoworld.com: white paper, ink-outlined cards, Archivo display caps with an outlined word, hairline eyebrows, navy and gold pills with letter-spaced labels.
Distinctive and consistent, but it follows the extranet's secondary look rather than its home page, so it only makes sense if pancoworld.com moves that way too.
Baseline plus a morning strip
Nothing a member knows moves: today's home with a greeting, four live counters and the four things a coordinator does most on top. The lowest-risk change that still answers "what needs me today?".
The first step after go-live: one strip added, everything else in place.
Command Deck
Same modules, same sidebar; adds a greeting, search, four quick actions, a KPI strip and a pinned announcement. The safest evolution on the original canvas.
Good bones, but search and quick actions are features the intranet does not have yet; a post-launch conversation.
Panco Workspace
The current intranet's chrome carrying the ideas from the Pangea intranet review: RouteBack credit and shipment balance, the day's counters as bold tiles, "Needs your attention", top routing partners, upcoming FreightCamp events with days-to-go, and news as image cards.
The richest page and the best place to see what the data could show; too much new at once for a launch.
Focus, on the map
A command band over the network's dot map; the task list built only on signals the intranet really has: overdue and due invoices, protection status, holidays that hit departures.
The map band is handsome but pushes the calendar and the monitor below the fold; the attention list is the part worth keeping.
Atlas
No sidebar, a top nav, and a live world map of the network as the home. The boldest option on the original canvas and a real navigation change.
Worth a look for the map as a hero, but dropping the sidebar changes how every other page is reached; not a home-page decision on its own.
Best of ten
One home built from the other ten. The look is 01's: white sticky header, white sidebar with the navy active pill, 8px line cards, pill buttons, its payment monitor, calendar and news column. On top of it, only the ideas that use data the intranet already has: 06's morning greeting with live counters, 07's quick actions, 09's dot-map band and "Needs your attention" list, 03's navy invite card, 04's online members with names.
Shown last on purpose: it has the most useful content, but 01 is the better-looking page and the safer go-live choice. This one is the brief for what to build after launch, not the artboard to copy. Left out: RouteBack and routing partners (no data yet), the full-height photo hero and the top navigation without a sidebar.
How to read these
- Combined (11): a new page that takes the best parts of the other ten; see its card for what was taken from where and what was left out.
- Restyling request (01, 03, 04): the three directions from the "Design restyling request" canvas, shown exactly as delivered. Each applies pancoworld.com's look to today's home without adding or removing a control.
- Go-live brief (02, 05): our own answers to the same prompt, one in the extranet's home-page style and one in its Kinetic Light style.
- Variant and design canvas (06 to 10): ideas for after the launch. They add a greeting, counters, an attention list or a map, so they are a second conversation, not part of the go-live decision.