Legacy Bank
WEBDESIGN
What is eternity?
Eternity, a widely used word. Barely known to the deep extend by the most. The project was about eternity. How we chose to interpret it, was not the case. But we had the challenge to explore the concept of eternity
"I feel scared but optimistic"
To get a thorough understand of, what eternity means to people, and more specifically leaving a mark means, we made a questionnaire, we did send around to family and friends. Being a team of 5 people, with 5 different nationalities and 5 different cultures, we gathered some interesting insights.
The concept of eternity is vague to the people we asked. A lot of different interpretations are common when talking about eternity. Another aspect from the survey is that, the asked people feel very small, when asked about the concept of eternity, insignificant, meaningless etc.
Idea development
In order to get some ideas, we did an idea generating workshop, where we ended up with 4 interesting ideas. You can see each of the in the gallery below. We ended up choosing the idea of leaving a mark, since we could see desirebility and feasibility in the idea
The user flow
In order to get a closer understanding of the idea, we developen a user flow on how we thought the solution could look like.
Below you can see a closer look on the customer journey, that we made to outline what screens we had to do, and how they inepret with the rest of the product
Done with user research?
We had one challenge to face. We did not know, what stuff people would like to upload on legacy Bank. What heritage would they like to leave as a mark? Why and how.
We decided to do interviews with students at the university. International studients, with different nationalities and backgrounds.
The results were a bit surprising. The intention behind leaving a mark, was different from interests to interests. As students from a graphic design course we made the mistake, that thinking everyone had a desire to leave some art, design or personal stuff. But it was not givin that way. Some wanted to leave clothes, some sound, video, recepies, a pan, a pen etc.
A way to overcome, but also limit the upload options, were to select what the users can upload.
First insights
In the process of designing the website, we made some wireframes, we decided to test those, to see how the user flow and UI stick together. You can read the responses below
Final design
Leaving a Mark
Leaving a mark is the center of Legacy Bank. How to make sure to be remembered personally, was the main challenge we had to solve.
As the user, who wants to leave a mark, there are some things to consider. First of all the why, which is a personal issue and matter. To whom you would like to leave it to, is another consideration. We decided to send an email with a link to legacy Bank, to the ones it matter.
The last thing is what to upload. Since it is a website. The year was 2021-2022 we chose to limit uploads to digital uploads only. Therefore it is not possible to leave a pan or some clothes, to the next generations.
How to inspire
The vision of Legacy Bank is to give a fair chance at safely preserving your heritage in a poetic and unique way for each person. It is an individual decision to make if the heritage is going to be visible to other or private.
If you decided to publish your heritage to the public, the heritage will be stored safely in the Legacy Bank. Below you can see a gif on how to browse through heritages.
Reflection on the project
Personally, I’ve enjoyed working on this project. It was fun to work on a project, that was that broad and so many people had different understandings of what Eternity means.
It was also interesting to work in a group, where every group member comes from a different culture. With group members from 5 different countries and social layers. We managed to get the group working together pretty good.
It was also a good working experience to be in a group of highly skilled students regarding graphic design disciplines. I learned a lot, from observing and listening, and I also felt I brought something to the table regarding UX design and web-design.
Jobtern
WEBDESIGN
PRIORITIZING THE GREAT MATCHES
Jobtern is a holistic take on a jobportal.
Inspired by humans, Jobtern is designed to be an extension, every bit intentional. Built to reduce any friction
The challenge
Create a way for students and employers to meet. It is a project of exploration” The challenge context should be explored through the perspectives of different stakeholders: students at the department , future employers, and the internship coordinator.
MY TAKE
I saw this challenge as truly exciting. As I have interests in platforms, technology and how to bring people together. A fun project in sight.
KICKOFF
At the outset of the project we didn’t have a clear mission or specific goals for the matching experience. Without pre-existing insights, we started to interview students and future employers. I had the role of being the interviewer on approx 50% of the interviews we conducted
The ones we interviewed
First insights
- Difficult to get to know potential companies.
- Hard to see what tasks that I will do at the company.
- Working description is often vague.
- What are the excact expectations to me?
- Each company has a different approach to hiring.
- Portfolio has the greatest impact in the hiring process.
- Difficult for the companies to know what tasks the candidates has done in each project.
- Often a one way process. The company posts a job posts, and waits for responses. Less active.
- The companies don't know where to find candidates.
- Seek help promoting the events and studies that are organized by Business Academy Aarhus .
- A lot of manual labor have to be done, when organizing company day, student day etc. at Business academy Aarhus.
- “Some companies are hesitant about international students”
Deep insights
Companies had difficulties with figuring out who did what in the portfolio projects
Students wish to get to know the work environment better. In what team am I gonna be in?
Poorly individualized job-portals cause “failed employments”
The current platforms are made out for a process where the recruitment spent the time on reading CV and transcripts. But that is not the case for digital product oriented jobs. The current platforms fail to deliver the most important knowledge on both sides.
How might we, with a new job-portal targeted product oriented candidates and companies increase credibility in the hiring process?
This begged the question, how might we, with a new job-portal targeted product oriented candidates and companies increase credibility in the hiring process? Our proposal was Jobtern, a job-portal created on behalf of companies and candidates.
Direction
To sort out which direction we had to go we made an impact-effort matrix
The matrix should help us with where to put our energy and effort. It helped us align our mental models, and build a common ground
Design
My professional opinion is, that research and test i crucial to the development of the concept and product
Therefore we tested out solution early on to learn if we were on the right path.
We tested the solution on 5 students, where we wanted to learn, what was important for them to know, when applying for jobs and internship. In the test we also had a useability test regarding uploading a portfolio and applying for a job
But, was this the actual test we had to make this early? The results from the test were sadly expected, the test respondents did the test too well and no surprises.
Direction
With some research and a test we sat down to narrow the concept even more
The concept should focus on follwing
- Display of candidate portfolio
- Increase credibility for both user groups
- A possibility to see job posts and apply for a job
- A dashboard for both user groups
Get seen as candidate
As result of the research, we concluded that a portfolio is the singlest most important factor to get hired as a candidate. At the same time, the candidates want to express themselves in a personal matter on the platform.
With that in mind, we had to find a solution where candidates can show their work, but also a solution where the companies can filter and find relevant projects and candidates.
We came up with a solution, where you as a candidate have each of your projects in your “portfolio” under your profile. In that way it is possible to filter between projects and find relevant people to your company.
To increase the credibility, we made an option, where you can add team members to your projects. With that in place, the recruiter can see based on the portfolio project, what work the specific candidate has done in the project.
Below can see the flow, of how you can upload projects to your profile.
Finding the right candidate
A big challenge from the companies are the amount of time recruiting a new candidate. Some companies are having an active approach to hiring candidates. Looking at Linked-in, hosting case competitions etc. Other a more passive approach.
With the profile and projects in order, the recruiters can use those to sort and filter between candidates. In that way candidates can be visible with the relevant info for companies. A step before their existent
approach.
Below you can see a gif of the feature..
Testing
Is it the right solution?
Personally I think user testing and concept validation is a truly important topic, when designing new concepts.
Therefore we decided to do a user test. The test included 4 different tasks, including a question about the filtering options.
The complexity of the filtering option for candidates surprised us, and there is plenty room for improvement here.
Data structure
As a student with with an interest in technology and design. To be aligned with developers and understand digital products I see as an important skill.
Therefore I created this data tree on the concept. How the data will get send around, and how the job-portal can be designed.
Retroperspective
Jobtern was an exciting project, where I had the oppurtunity to learn even mor about the complexity of designing platforms. In the group we managed to create a good product, that did not had to be pixel perfect but had a direction and a goal.
How might we, with a ned job-portal targeted product oriented candidates and companies increase credibility in the hiring process
We managed to create a job-portal where we could increase the credibility on both sides in the hiring process. We did that, by including candidate profiles and project together with an “add team member” the recruiter can see what and why the specific candidate has done in each project.
Validation of the concept is tough a point, where we could have done better. Jobtern is a big platform, with many features. Too many? In the rush of finishing the project, we did not test the most important thing, would people use the platform as designed? on a retrospective note, we should definitely have done some concept validation.
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