Discovery & filtering
Search and narrow complex inventory without overwhelming the first screen.
STUDIO BUILD / Car Rental Platform
DriveRent
A vehicle rental platform for fleet availability, booking, add-ons, customer verification and operations.
PORTFOLIO TYPEVibecoading studio build
INDUSTRYAutomotive
COMPLETEDFeb 2023
TIMELINE11 weeks
PROJECT OVERVIEW
DriveRent is an original Vibecoading Studio Build for automotive workflows. The concept is designed as a production-style product case study, covering the customer-facing experience, operating workflows, permissions, data boundaries and administrative controls that a real implementation would require.
Studio BuildStudio ConceptAutomotive5 person team
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Stripe
MapboxTOOLS & DELIVERY
Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLStripeMapboxFigmaGitHubPostmanVercelSupabase / DB toolingQA test matrix
DELIVERABLESProduct strategyUX / UI designResponsive web or app flowsAdmin operationsData modelIntegration boundariesQA matrix
PLATFORMSWebResponsive
PRODUCT FEATURES
Designed around real jobs, states and decisions.
Saved shortlist
Keep high-intent items available for comparison and return visits.
Inquiry workflow
Turn interest into an actionable provider-side lead or booking workflow.
Trust context
Surface availability, verification and useful decision information in the right place.
Provider operations
Give the supply side a workspace for listings, leads and exceptions.
Responsive discovery
Keep search, detail and action flows usable across desktop and mobile.
THE BUILDFrom friction
From friction
to working system.
DriveRent is an original Vibecoading Studio Build for automotive workflows. The concept is designed as a production-style product case study, covering the customer-facing experience, operating workflows, permissions, data boundaries and administrative controls that a real implementation would require.
DISCIPLINESProduct strategyUX / UI designFrontend engineeringBackend architectureQA planning
SERVICES PROVIDEDWeb app developmentFull-stack engineeringAutomotive
Challenge
Teams in automotive often spread important work across spreadsheets, messages and disconnected tools. DriveRent explores how that fragmented workflow can be turned into one clear product experience with visible ownership, status and next actions.
Solution
We designed DriveRent around the highest-frequency jobs first, then added the supporting admin, search, notification, analytics and integration states needed to make the experience believable beyond a single polished screen.
Result
The Studio Build demonstrates a maintainable product pattern for automotive teams: focused user journeys, explicit operating states, responsive behavior and a system structure that can be extended without rebuilding the interface from scratch.
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
The product is more than its screens.
Interface, application logic, data boundaries and operational controls are designed as one system.
Experience layer
Responsive interface states, navigation and information hierarchy built around the primary workflow.
Application layer
Business rules, validation, orchestration and permission checks separated from presentation concerns.
Data & integration layer
Structured persistence and external service boundaries with explicit failure handling.
Operations layer
Admin controls, observability and release tooling so the system can be operated after launch.
PRODUCT SCREENS
Five views of the product system.
Original Vibecoading interface visuals created for this case study: overview, workflow, analytics, detail and responsive states.
DELIVERY PROCESS
How the system gets shaped.
Discover
Map users, constraints and the commercial or operational outcome before defining features.
Prototype
Validate information hierarchy, key states and the smallest useful workflow.
Engineer
Build interface, application logic, data model, permissions and integrations as one system.
Verify
Test critical journeys, responsive behavior, access rules and error states.
Measure
Instrument meaningful events and use feedback to choose the next valuable iteration.
HAVE A SIMILAR WORKFLOW?
We can turn it into a product system.
Bring the messy process, product idea or operational problem. We will help shape the useful core, the interface and the system underneath it.
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