Taleo

Lead User Experience Designer

Applicant Tracking System for SMB

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Overview

Taleo was a Saas-based human capital product, enabling clients to recruit candidates, and track performance.

Taleo needed to innovate on their applicant tracking system, while supporting feature designs for their existing system.

Methodologies

  • Agile development

  • User Experience Strategy

    • Design system creation

    • Interaction and visual guideline documentation

  • Information Architecture

    • Site maps

    • Cross-application maps

    • Wire flows

  • User Research

    • Contextual inquiries

    • Moderated remote and in-person usability studies

    • Customer feedback

    • Concept validation

    • User acceptance testing

  • Visual Design

    • Solution sketching

    • High-fidelity mockups

    • Icon creation

    • Logo design and production

    • Print design and production

    • Visual specifications production (redlines)

    • HTML and CSS definitions

  • Interaction Design

    • Wireframes

Contributions

  • Created go to market strategy for new application designs.

  • Created the strategy for user interface enhancements including mobile strategy

  • Produced the look and feel for the next generation of products

  • Overhauled user interface, interactions, style guides, and developer specifications

  • Created wire frames, high fidelity screens, and user flows for release notes and documentation

  • Created standards guidelines for current and future releases

  • Guided and supported Product and Engineering teams with best practices

  • Created and implemented user research strategy

  • Conducted user research recruiting, script writing, moderation, recording, and analysis

  • Created and conducted usability testing sessions

  • Improved usability through user research and customer support interviews

  • Reported usability findings to the VP of Product Management and Director of Engineering

  • Collaborated closely with the VP of Product, Product Managers, and Engineering

  • Supported the user interface needs of the Engineering and Product Management teams

Accomplishments

  • Redesign of entire application interactions and interface

  • Design won internal innovation award

Software

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Balsamiq

  • Atlassian Jira

  • Atlassian Confluence