1. Unclear Copy

2. Overload of notifications from drop down menu could be confusing

3. Unclear flow on how to monitor work progress or view

Another problem our team encountered was interviewing young adults from Indonesia. We didn’t know much about their culture or the current economic state the country was in.
After realizing that we didn’t start with the “why” or “who” we were building this for, we went into the research phase of our project.

Our team focused on teenagers and young adults 16-28. Half of the audience that utilizes solve employment are young adults trying to find work in order to provide for their family.

LEARNING AND
PINPOINTING APPLICANTS
DISSATISFACTIONS WITH SE

Since we discovered a cultural barrier issue, we took it upon ourselves to post on Fiverr to interview young adults between the ages of 18-25. We interviewed a total of five participants from Indonesia to understand their behaviors and mindsets about using solve employment.

Young adults expressed interest in using Solve employment but encountered difficulties using the mobile app.

The following key findings contain core problems that our team aims to solve for the mobile app: everything looks the same and applying to a job takes effort.

I understood users complaints about all of the key features seeming homogeneous to one another on the app. During a few feedback sessions, applicants stated that they wanted to access jobs in real-time. There was also a concern from applicants going into the hamburger menu in order to locate certain features as well.
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The first step was to add a bottom nav, so applicants could easily access features they prioritized the most. Adding the nav bar added an extra layer and complexity to the architecture, but we quickly figured it out by diagraming and connecting existing features to one another.

It took us a couple of rounds to define the user flow for the talent section. In order to figure out what features applicants wanted the most, my team did quantitative research by sending out a quick survey. The surveys helped us quickly reveal which features needed to be placed on the nav: earnings, tracker, dashboard, chat, and profile.

Working closely as a team, we went through multiple iterations and mapped out each core feature for applicants applying to jobs.

As a team of seven, we created a design system in order to have consistency in color, typography text sizing, shadows, components (buttons, cards, navigation bar, etc.) and sizing. Using the same system was instrumental in have the talent, hirer and admin sides maintain a similar feeling.

Now if an applicant chooses to dig deeper into their status, they are presented with the option of clicking the content they wish to investigate and will be directed to their desired screen with expanded information on their desired subject.

Dashboard/Home

Hamburger Menu

To solve one of our initial problems, our design included a status section at the top of each dashboard to illuminate information such as active jobs or applications. Applicants are now able to view the progress of their active jobs, applications, and disputes as they are submitted, without having to hunt for the information.

Home Page Job Status
     (One Stop Shop)

View Job Milestone

Talents Profile

Edit Profile

Earnings

After reviewing three tests from zoom chats, as well as three user interviews, our team realized there were three major pain points we had to resolve.

1. The “Status” section felt too small and the background was too light.

2. The talent team updated the background color and resized numbers to match the font around it.

3. The Milestone page did not have the ability to check progress or terminate a job in an intuitive way.

The talent team added the ability on “Milestone" to click on the hirer name to visit their company profile and the ability to click the job name to bring it to the page that allows progress updates and termination.

At the end of the two weeks, our team presented our designs the stakeholders. The stakeholders favored the dashboard layout with a menu that talents can tab through to take a quick glance and view applications, work progress, and disputes.

The number of monthly active applicants with a Solve Employment increased by 34%. Below are some main takeaways from this project.

SPEAK UP

During the design process of Solve Employment, I’ve learned to communicate, speak up, and provide feedback when you know your team is not headed in the right direction.

NEVER STOP LEARNING

I learned that just because a stakeholder provides you with company issues and deliverables, doesn’t mean your job is done as a problem solver. There’s still a long road to discovering complex problems as a designer.