
IBM Talent Suite
COMPANY: IBM / ROLE: DESIGN DIRECTOR
Watch IBM Talent Suite in Action (2:35min)
IBM Smarter Workforce had 3 key goals: (1) integrate several complex SAAS web apps, which help companies attract, recruit, hire, engage, & develop talent, (2) greatly improve user experience, and (3) leapfrog the competition. This required bringing together multiple dev teams & delivering a shared vision on an extremely tight timeline.
I set strategy & creative execution for the Talent Suite and led the teams to develop a number of innovative, mobile-first, responsive applications. I leveraged IBM Design Thinking, developed an extensive user program with 50+ clients to enable continuous user research & usability testing.

An integrated suite of workforce solutions augmented by marketing tools and practices to help organizations find, nurture, hire and onboard the very best talent

Problem Definition
Employee & User Experience - a top concern for businesses

Formative Research
Research plan and initial Talent Suite concepts

Personas & Journeys
Job Seekers, Recruiters, Managers, & Employees

Integrated IA & Sitemap
Bringing all task flows and apps together

Initial Concepts
Visual design explorations

Initial Concepts, Cont.
Additional rounds of visual design exploration

Strategic Shift
Business demanded more integration, faster results

2-Day, Multi-Location Design Charrette
Developing a phased approach to integrated experience: Crawl > Walk > Run

UX Iterations & Usability Testing
4 rounds of validation research - from Quick Views to Simple App Platform

Final Design Strategy
Persona-driven, responsive, customer-branded app platform supporting end-to-end employee journey (attract > hire > engage > develop talent)

Employer Brand
Re-branded Talent Suite Experiences

Fully Responsive Designs
Mobile-first, device independent

Onboarding App
Before & after

Assessments App
Before & after

Org Mapper App
Before & after

Talent Insights App
IBM Watson Analytics

Lead Manager App
Recruitment is marketing

Expertise Manager App
Team up to build strategic skills

Disrupt with Open HR
Design strategy enables an innovative business strategy

Integrated Talent Profile App
Single point of truth

Design Evolution
From dark ages to market disruption