TSRGD / Compliance software
Six hundred pages of the law made searchable
Compliance software that makes every page of the UK’s traffic signs regulations searchable.
Product design
UX architecture
Brand identity
- 440
- hours saved yearly
- 1,200
- diagrams indexed
- 600
- pages searchable
Overview
TSRGD
Searchable traffic signs regulations for highways teams
Product design, UX architecture, brand identity, marketing website
Six hundred pages of regulations, one search box
TSRGD.co.uk is an online reference for the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, the rules every traffic sign, road marking and signal in England, Scotland and Wales must follow. It brings diagrams, amendments and Traffic Signs Manual guidance into one place for councils, contractors, consultants and sign makers.
We designed the product, its structure and the website that sells it, turning a free government PDF into a tool teams pay for.
01 The challenge
A free document that was hard to use
The regulations are published free, as hundreds of pages of PDF. Engineers scrolled to find a sign, then checked schedules, items and amendments against each other by hand, and an afternoon went on confirming something they already half knew. The wording could not change by a single word. And teams had to be persuaded to pay for something they could already get for free.
02 The idea
A traffic signs search that starts with the answer
The old way started with the document and hunted for the answer. The new one starts with the answer. Search returns the clause, the diagram and the amendment history together, and the document's structure appears around the result as context. The website makes the same case before anyone signs up: each benefit sits beside the product screen that proves it, and an audience carousel speaks to each kind of buyer in turn.
03 One view
Three references became one screen
Checking a schedule against an item against an amendment used to mean three references open at once. They now sit in a single view, with 1,200 diagrams indexed beside the text they belong to and the Traffic Signs Manual guidance a click away. Projects hold saved signs and notes, so the reasoning behind a decision stays with the sign it was about, at a desk or on a phone, behind a magic link sign-in with no password.
04 Pricing
Priced by team, with the saving shown up front
An engineer had to justify paying for something the government publishes free. Per-seat pricing would have pushed teams back to sharing the PDF, so licences are priced by team size. A savings calculator on the homepage turns the case into the buyer's own figures: people, hours saved a week, weeks a year and hourly rate. In the example shown, the saving climbs from £13,200 to £66,000 a year.
05 Results
Compliance software that saves 440 hours per team
The product is built to save time, and that is how it is measured: 440 hours per team, per year. The cross-checking that used to take an afternoon now happens in one view. That matters for the sale too. A free document is hard to beat on price, so the paid version has to win on time, and the calculator lets each engineer make that case in their own numbers.
One senior team, from the information architecture to the marketing site
- Product
- Search and information architectureInterface designMobile UIProjects and notes
- Website
- Marketing siteSavings calculator
- Commercial
- Per-team pricing
FAQs
Questions about compliance software design
TSRGD sells a searchable version of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, the statutory reference every UK highways team works to for signs, markings and signals. Grid Design designed the product, its information architecture and the marketing site, turning a six hundred page government PDF into a tool teams pay for.
Put all the value in how people reach it. TSRGD's wording could not move by a single word, so search became the front door and the document structure became context around each result. Interface patterns are deliberately familiar, because a regulatory tool is the last place for a novel interaction.
Search returns the clause, the diagram and the amendment history together. The schedules, items and amendments engineers used to cross-check across three references now resolve into a single view, with twelve hundred diagrams indexed alongside the text they belong to, and TSM guidance a click away.
An engineer has to justify paying for something the government publishes free. Per-seat pricing would push teams back to sharing the PDF, so pricing is per team. The website's savings calculator makes the case in the buyer's own numbers, and the product saves 440 hours per team, per year.
Yes. Projects, saved sign items and notes are all available on a phone, with a mobile dashboard for recent work and My Projects. Sign-in uses a magic link, so there is no password to remember on site, and the same cards for projects, signs and notes work on desktop and mobile.