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Orbit Admin Dashboard

When to use

• You're designing an admin console for a product and the first screen is currently a wall of tables nobody reads
• Admins keep missing outages because the health signal is buried three clicks deep
• Your dashboard has grown to a dozen modules and navigation has become a scavenger hunt
• You need one screen that answers "is everything OK?" in three seconds and "what exactly is wrong?" in two clicks
• You're redesigning an existing admin panel and want a layout that scales as modules get added

Workflow

1. Name the hub metric (input: what the product does → output: one hub status)
   Pick the single status the hub shows: overall system health, active incidents, or the one number the business lives by (orders flowing, users online, jobs queued). The hub is one glanceable answer, not a dashboard-in-miniature — a green/amber/red state, a headline number, and a one-line note ("2 incidents open, both acknowledged"). If you can't pick one hub metric, the product's priorities aren't settled yet, and no layout will fix that.
2. Sort modules by urgency (input: all admin modules → output: ranked module list)
   List every module the dashboard needs — users, billing, content, incidents, logs, settings, analytics — and rank them by how often an admin opens them in a hurry. The top four to six become the orbit ring; the rest become a secondary shelf or a menu. A module nobody opens in a hurry doesn't earn a permanent orbit slot, however important it feels in a planning meeting.
3. Design the orbit layout (input: ranked module list → output: layout spec)
   Place the hub at the center and the orbit modules around it in a ring, ordered by urgency clockwise from the top. Each orbit module shows its own mini-status (a count, a sparkline, a dot) so the ring itself is informative — an admin should spot the one red module without clicking anything. Keep the ring to six modules maximum; beyond that the orbit becomes a crowded carousel and the glance value collapses. The layout spec states the hub content, the ring order, what each module's mini-status shows, and the behavior at narrow widths (ring collapses to a stacked list, hub stays pinned to the top).

Template preview

Orbit Admin Dashboard — Design Template

One hub, one ring. Fill in the hub before placing any module.

Hub

Hub status: {overall system health / open incidents / the one number the business lives by} Hub states: 🟢 {what green means} / 🟡 {what amber means} / 🔴 {what red means} Headline number: {number + label} One-line note: {e.g. "2 incidents open, both acknowledged"}

Module ranking (by how often an admin opens it in a hurry)

Orbit ring (max 6): {modules 1–6, in urgency order clockwise from top} Secondary shelf: {remaining modules + how they're reached}

Orbit layout

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