CULTURE BUILD
- Description: Global Human Resources Application
- Client: Company Name Confidential
- Role: UI + UX designer
- Dates: 2017-2019
Culture Build is an internal-facing multi-lingual application used
by the human resource departments of many large corporations and
institutions across the globe.
This purpose of this app is to mold company culture through a specific
methodology. This software runs in 32 countries and is available in
over 26 languages. My role as a UI/UX designer was to create
wireframes, prototypes, visual assets, style guides, redlines, CSS
code snippets, and user interfaces with the goal of creating an
engaging user experience. I collaborated frequently with the product
manager, the lead architect, the project manager, and several
developers.
Client privacy is important. Content, features and client names has
been altered and/or excluded to protect confidentiality.
The greatest challenge for this project was to create one piece of
software that served a great number of clients and their
brands.
The resulting employee-facing UI needed to work well with Culture
Build's content and each client's individual style guide. The
corporate clients didn't just want to use their own brands, they
wanted their workers to feel the spirit of their unique company
cultures. I sketched out ideas and drew low fidelity wireframes to
share with the team. We iterated quickly through basic designs. Then,
I collaborated with the lead architect on creating formulas that would
accommodate dramatically different style guides.
Modular design served the individual needs of each corporate
client, and the business goals of the product owner. We applied
design systems thinking.
As Culture Build grew, my team and I introduced new features as
modules. We would start with low fidelity quick sketches and move
towards high fidelity comps. Clients loved the customization. We
enjoyed the freedom to innovate without having to break the existing
software apart.
Prototypes helped us test the design without writing a single
lick of code.
The development team needed time to build the backend and do the
heavy lifting of getting the app to function properly. Being a
sprint ahead, the product manager, lead architect and I were able to
cycle through designs at the same time. I created prototypes from
the comps. The prototypes freed us from trying to imagine how the
interactions would work so we could focus more closely on the user
experience.
Culture Build is an extremely flexible product that successfully
gives corporations the power to mold their own cultures.
By leveraging the power of style guides and modules, my team and I
were able to give Culture Build's clients customized experiences for
their corporate employees. Collaboration was key to this achievement
and I could not have asked for a better or more talented team.