Rebuilding the Design System to connect with younger audience

HeyJobs • 2024

Overview

HeyJobs is a job search platform based out of Germany. User research suggested that a brand revamp could help HeyJobs connect a bit more emotionally with its audience and cater better to the younger age group.

What did I do?

✅ UI audit to understand existing implementation.

✅ Collaborate with tech team to understand implementation challenges.

✅ Collaborate with the Brand Design team to gather the different branding components and translate it to the UI.

✅ Prepare stakeholder presentation.

Existing UI

New colour palette

We collaborated with the brand team to come up with a new young and vibrant colour palette. The biggest challenge was to find colour pairs which had a very good colour contrast.

Typography

Two different typefaces were selected for headings and body copies.

Spacing

Buttons

There were many variants of buttons that were extensively documented to cover all user cases. Here are a few

Input fields

Selections

Selections were done using radio buttons, checkboxes and toggles. The Conversational Application Flow, through which the users applied for jobs, needed a slight variation of the radio buttons and checkboxes.

Final designs

Homepage

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Job description page

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Other screens

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