Build a Real-Time Operations Wall Display for a Logistics AI Startup
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a real-time ops wall display for a logistics AI startup. Design for glanceability at 4 meters. Get a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The startup (around 60 staff, around EUR 18 million ARR, customers across the Benelux ports) has noticed warehouse managers rely on shouted hallway updates rather than the existing dashboard; the wall display is meant to make the dashboard the source of truth.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Build a glanceable real-time wall display that a warehouse manager can read at a 4-meter distance with no interaction needed.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design for glanceability at typical wall-display distances
- Use color and shape semantically for operational state
- Build a real-time dashboard backed by streaming data
- Plan for failure modes in always-on operational displays
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Data Visualization
Master · Data Engineering
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Data Visualization at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Realtime Visualization
Apply realtime visualization to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Glanceability
Apply glanceability to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- D3
Apply d3 to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Websockets
Apply websockets to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Dashboard Design
Apply dashboard design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Color Design
Apply color design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Product Designer
Designing physical-context dashboards with hard ergonomic constraints is a niche but valuable AI product designer skill at industrial-AI companies.
This challenge sharpens
- dashboard-design
- glanceability
- color-design
AI Engineer
Wiring real-time ops feeds into operator-facing surfaces is core AI engineer work at logistics, robotics, and infrastructure-AI startups.
This challenge sharpens
- realtime-visualization
- websockets
- d3
AI Product Manager
Scoping a glanceable display with explicit failure modes is the kind of operational-product judgment AI PMs are hired to bring.
This challenge sharpens
- dashboard-design
- glanceability
- realtime-visualization