Introducing: Dashboards

Over the past year, we've been building out a new feature called Dashboards. It's now live, and it changes how you'll interact with the platform day to day.

The core idea: instead of clicking through different sections to piece together what's happening across your projects, the Dashboard pulls the key information into one screen. Think of it as your starting point, a single view that surfaces what you actually need without making you hunt for it.

What's on the Dashboard?

News items sit at the top. The BetterBuilding team publishes updates here directly, which means platform news and feature announcements appear front and centre when you log in. This is particularly useful if our newsletters aren't reliably reaching your inbox. Spam filters, the Promotions tab, general inbox overwhelm: these are real problems, and the Dashboard gives you a backup channel that doesn't depend on email delivery.

Latest Projects appears below the news section. Previously, checking on your current work meant navigating to the Projects area. Not a huge inconvenience, but it adds friction when you just want a quick glance at what's active. The Dashboard now surfaces your most recent projects immediately. Small time savings compound over weeks.

Recent Activity sits to the right of Latest Projects, and this is where the Dashboard becomes genuinely useful for coordination. The activity feed aggregates what's happening across your projects, designs, fellows, and teams. Instead of manually checking each project to see if anything has changed (or relying on notifications that may or may not catch your attention), you get a chronological view of recent updates.

For teams with multiple people working across multiple projects, this kind of visibility prevents the classic problem of duplicated effort. You can see that your colleague already updated that design yesterday, rather than discovering it after you've spent an hour on the same task.

Latest Designs appears at the bottom of the Dashboard. This is straightforward: quick access to your most recently created designs. If you're iterating on something and need to jump back in, it's right there.

Search

Alongside the Dashboard itself, we've overhauled search. The search bar now lives on the Dashboard and offers filtering by both time and document type.

You can narrow results to specific categories: projects, designs, documentation, studies, and flows. Combined with date filtering, this means you can run queries like "show me designs from the last month" or "find studies from this quarter" without wading through everything in your account.

The search also accepts multiple input types. You can search by project number, project name, or even project address. For larger teams managing dozens of projects, this is the difference between finding what you need in seconds versus clicking through pages of results. Type the project number, hit enter, go directly there.

What's Next?

The Dashboard as it stands is a foundation. Over the next couple of months, expect additional features to appear here. The goal is to make this the most useful screen in the application.

Feedback is welcome (and genuinely wanted). If there's information you wish the Dashboard surfaced, or if the current layout doesn't match how you work, let us know.