SkillBuild

A complete product design for the platform a home-services company uses to train its own technicians and prove who is qualified.

Year
2026
Services
Web App
UX/UI Design
Design System
Industry
Home services
Smartphone displaying Coastal Blackbutt 5G Hybrid Flooring product with price and details.
Black food truck selling hand made doughnuts labeled fresh every day with a display of doughnuts.
Tablet and phone showing a flooring website with brown hybrid wood floor samples and filters.
Smartphone displaying Coastal Blackbutt 5G Hybrid Flooring product with price and details.
Black food truck selling hand made doughnuts labeled fresh every day with a display of doughnuts.
Tablet and phone showing a flooring website with brown hybrid wood floor samples and filters.
Smartphone displaying Coastal Blackbutt 5G Hybrid Flooring product with price and details.
Black food truck selling hand made doughnuts labeled fresh every day with a display of doughnuts.
Tablet and phone showing a flooring website with brown hybrid wood floor samples and filters.
Laptop displaying Sugar Baby skincare website featuring products, a smiling woman holding soap, and another woman applying product to her underarm.
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Laptop displaying Sugar Baby skincare website featuring products, a smiling woman holding soap, and another woman applying product to her underarm.
Smiling woman using a white facial cleansing brush with foam on her cheek against a yellow background.
Hand holding a smartphone displaying the Sugar Baby website featuring the Glowing Kitty Kit skincare set with free Glow Wash, priced at $65, with product benefits and purchase options.
Laptop displaying Sugar Baby skincare website featuring products, a smiling woman holding soap, and another woman applying product to her underarm.
Smiling woman using a white facial cleansing brush with foam on her cheek against a yellow background.
Hand holding a smartphone displaying the Sugar Baby website featuring the Glowing Kitty Kit skincare set with free Glow Wash, priced at $65, with product benefits and purchase options.

Proving Who Is Qualified, Before The Work Starts

The Challenge
1.
Home-services firms hire faster than they can train, so the best technician ends up teaching new starters on live jobs — time nobody can bill.
2.
Every supervisor teaches it differently, and bad habits travel.
3.
Certificates sit in folders, phone photos and spreadsheets, so nobody can answer the only question that matters: is this person legal to do this job, and until when?
The Solution
The hard part was making compliance feel like part of the job rather than paperwork. We designed one route from new starter to signed off: the company builds a course, a depot manager assigns it with a date, the technician learns and sits the exam — and a supervisor watches them do the work before any certificate is issued. Because certificates expire, the whole loop comes round again, and the platform is what tells the company who is due.

50+

Screens designed

4-step

Course to certificate

A–Z

End-to-end UX & UI

A design system borrowed from the building site

Safety yellow comes from PPE and site signage, so it reads as earned rather than decorative — and it is kept for actions, progress and certificates only. Warnings are orange, never yellow, so an alert is never mistaken for a button. Hanken Grotesk carries the interface; IBM Plex Mono carries the certificate numbers, dates and pass marks.

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Everything that needs a human, on one screen

The overview opens on the four numbers that decide the week — people on the platform, in training now, certificates valid, and expiring within thirty days — beside a renewal gauge and a rail of work only a person can clear. Search reaches staff, courses and certificates from anywhere in the product.

Website interface showing flooring options: Hybrid, Laminate, Timber, Carpet, Vinyl, Tiles with room thumbnails below.
Tablet displaying a booking form to get a free flooring quote with name, phone, email, location options, and notes.
Samples of various wood floor colors and textures with National Floors branded boxes on wooden floor.

Analytics that answer what a director actually asks

Completion rate, first-time pass rate, certificates issued and overdue training, filtered by trade and depot. Assigned against completed shows the gap between what was set and what was finished, and completion by trade shows where the training lands — and where it quietly does not.

Two showroom images: one showing wood flooring samples inside and one the National Floors store exterior.

A course library every depot assigns from

Ninety-six live courses, each card carrying its trade, length and uptake, and eight waiting on approval — nothing reaches a technician until it has been signed off. Behind each card sits the full course, its modules, and the builder that made it.

Tablet and smartphone displaying a flooring product website with wood sample listings in brown color.
Two mobile checkout screens showing LOAFY brand, payment options, delivery country Canada, total $1,153.95 CAD.
Support info: free consultation, measurements, quotes, installation scheduling, and a call number.

Assessments that prove more than recall

Quizzes, exams and practical checks in one library, each with its pass mark, attempts and live pass rate. The builder records which answer is right, why it is right, and which module to send someone back to when they get it wrong.

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Tablet displaying a booking form to get a free flooring quote with name, phone, email, location options, and notes.
Samples of various wood floor colors and textures with National Floors branded boxes on wooden floor.

Certificates with a date on them

Every template carries what earns it, how long it lasts and who holds it — 412 in date, 18 expiring inside thirty days. The editor sets the wording, the validity and the reminders that bring the training round again.

Laptop screen showing mattress options Luxe, Loafy, and Foam with prices and features comparison.
Tablet displaying a booking form to get a free flooring quote with name, phone, email, location options, and notes.
Samples of various wood floor colors and textures with National Floors branded boxes on wooden floor.

Every technician, and what they hold

248 people across six trades and three depots, filtered down to the ones who need chasing. Each row carries the course they are on, how far through they are, how many certificates are valid, and the date the next one runs out.

Style guide showing text styles with font sizes and color styles with main brand colors and typography details.
Tablet displaying a booking form to get a free flooring quote with name, phone, email, location options, and notes.
Samples of various wood floor colors and textures with National Floors branded boxes on wooden floor.

Three roles, and a rule nobody can grant around

Super Admin owns the content and the rules, Admin runs a depot and signs off practical checks, Staff hold their own record. Permissions follow the role, and no certificate can be issued without a supervisor watching the work.

Style guide showing text styles with font sizes and color styles with main brand colors and typography details.