Building Skill Align - Part 7 - Project Staffing Assistant(Frontend)

In the previous part of this series, I built the backend logic that evaluates employees against project skill requirements and calculates a gap score. With the backend logic in place, the next step was to design a frontend experience that helps managers interpret those results effectively. Building the UI from an initial version to an improved dashboard If you look at the first version of the Project Assistant UI, it displayed the data correctly, but the interface itself was quite plain and number-heavy. Managers would have had to interpret a lot of raw information before making decisions. That made me realize something important: A decision-support system should not just display data — it should help users understand what the data means . So I redesigned the interface to make the information more actionable and easier to interpret for project managers. The Goal of the Frontend The Project Staffing Assistant needed to answer three important questions for project managers: Which employe