Dreamscape Cart Manager

Role

Creative Direction, UI/UX Design

Platform

Tablet App (IoT Device Management)

Year

2025–2026

Team

Solo designer, 2 developers, 1 PM

Tools

Figma

Overview

To support Dreamscape Learn’s classroom-based VR curriculum, schools utilize dedicated mobile carts that store, charge, and transport dozens of VR headsets. Built directly into the cart hardware, the Cart Manager tablet application serves as the operational hub for deploying immersive learning modules.

I led the UX/UI design for the tablet interface, translating complex local network fleet management into a clean, highly visual control center. The system allows educators to monitor real-time battery and connection telemetry for 30+ headsets at once, synchronize module launches across student groups, and quickly resolve hardware edge cases without interrupting class flow.

01The brief

Designing for hardware we didn’t build

Dreamscape provided the spec: the cart hardware, the resolution of the tablet built into it, and the statuses and actions an educator needs, from switching content to swapping in a spare. My job was the application that runs on that tablet.

Client spec of cart statuses and actions, and a rough headset layout

02Exploration

Three ways to show status

I explored three treatments for the headset grid, putting a banner, a gradient, or an image background behind each card, and compared how clearly each showed headset status.

Three dashboard style options: banner, gradient, and image background

03Overview

One screen for the whole cart

The home screen shows how many headsets are online and what’s playing. Choosing new content sends it to every headset in the cart at once.

04Cart details

Every headset, live

Cart Details shows each headset’s battery, current content, and cast controls, next to the cart’s own battery, Wi-Fi bridge, and update status.

05States

Designing every device state

Each headset card has a distinct look for playing content, sitting at home, needing attention, working as a spare, or not being connected, so an educator can scan 30+ headsets and spot the one that needs help.

06Flows

Sending content to a class

Choosing content sends it to every headset at once, with clear success and failure states, including when the cart isn’t connected to the internet.

Selecting content on the cart home screen, with success and failure states

07Spares

Swapping in a spare mid-class

When a headset has a problem, an educator can swap it for one of the cart’s spares in a few steps, right from the dashboard.

08Quick actions

Every headset has its own menu

Each headset card opens a menu to switch its content, view what it’s showing, set it as the professor’s headset, swap it with a spare, or restart it. Restarting asks for confirmation, since it stops what’s playing.

Headset quick-action menu, promoting a headset to professor, and the restart confirmation

09Cart actions

Big actions, clearly guarded

Cart-wide actions like emergency mode, restarting every headset, or shutting down the cart each get a confirmation step, so nothing that affects a whole class happens by accident.

Emergency mode, restart, and shutdown prompts

10Edge cases

Planning for what goes wrong

Edge cases got the same care as the main screens: a cart that can’t be found on the network, several problems at once, and headsets that haven’t been set up yet.

Edge cases: cart not found, more than two problems, and an unset headset

11Reservations

The schedule lives on the cart

The cart shows its reservations and schedule, including where it’s parked and the PIN codes groups use to start a session.

12Settings

Cart and network settings

Settings cover the cart’s UPS battery, headset update status, and the Wi-Fi bridge, including switching between saved networks.

13Components

Built from atomic components

Cards and control bars are assembled from smaller parts, like battery indicators, cast buttons, status badges, and control buttons, each with its own set of variants.

14Outcome

Shipped

The Cart Manager launched on the tablets built into Dreamscape Learn’s headset carts.