From landing page to daily dashboard

The platform's homepage was a row of five cards: three for solar workflows and two for storage, each linking to a different part of the platform. It worked as a directory, but nothing on it changed from one visit to the next, so it gave buyers no reason to start their day on Anza.

Solar Pulse turned the homepage into a dashboard built around what changes every day in a buyer's market: policy and supplier news, module pricing by segment, and which suppliers can deliver in which quarter. Each panel is a summary with a clear path into the detail behind it.

• Market Feed: policy and supplier updates with Anza's own take on each, filterable by category.
• Live Pricing: median price by segment with 30-day trends, custom segments, and a detail page for each segment with price ranges, history and the suppliers behind it.
• Supplier Overview and directory: availability by quarter across compliance attributes, and a sortable directory of suppliers.
• A storage version of the dashboard, so both product lines shared one model.

Design, product and engineering had all started working with AI tools like Claude, and Anza's tech leadership wanted to see how fast that could take us. Solar Pulse, its storage version and the ES Storage Product Library became the test: three 0-to-1 products, from first design to release, in six weeks.

I used AI to prototype and explore directions quickly, and the design system meant everything I made was already in the components engineering was building from.

What I learned. AI made generating screens fast, but speed alone wasn't the hard part. What kept six weeks from turning into chaos was the design system: it gave the AI-assisted work, and the engineers building it, a shared source of truth. The faster a team can make things, the more the foundation matters.