Why does learning one screen teach you all the others?
Eight interface rules: the card opens next to the list, a dash is not a zero, every figure shows its source, and the system blocks only where a mistake costs money.
What you get
- Short training: the same rules from screen to screen.
- Figures you can trust, because you can see where they come from.
- Freedom where a person decides, and protection where a mistake costs money.
Transcript
Ease of use isn't about pretty buttons — it's rules that stay the same from screen to screen. There are eight.
One: you never lose context. Clicking a row changes the card on the right, while the list and the filter stay put.
Two: a map, not a gate. You fill in the dossier in any order — the DUM will come from the forwarder two days later anyway. The system doesn't hold you at a step; it counts what's missing.
Three: a dash is not a zero. A zero in a money column says something about a company in trouble. When the system doesn't know, it shows a dash and says why.
Four: every figure has a source — your own ninety-day history, a default value or a manual entry. A figure like that is one you can argue with.
Five: we warn rather than forbid. The dispatcher at the weighbridge may know better than the software. Hard blocks sit where a mistake costs a fine, insurance or money.
Six: suggestions never overwrite what you typed yourself — they only fill an empty field.
Seven: what happened is never rewritten. A stamped step is locked, and a correction is a new line, not the old one erased.
And eight: a retry is not a duplicate. A second click on "Save" adds nothing, and a phone without signal sends each update exactly once.
Learn one screen — and you know them all.