For my first time ever using a design tool, Sketch, I decided to redesign LinkedIn's Recruiter mobile application. Nothing too flashy, but it helped me get to learn how to design an app!
- Role:
- Product / Visual / UX Designer
- Time:
- May 2019 - Jun 2019
- Project Type:
- Design Exercise, Mockup
About
LinkedIn is professional networking platform in the world. LinkedIn Recruiter is a subscription-based product that gives recruiters the ability to source from within LinkedIn's talent network.
As a former recruiter, I used LinkedIn Recruiter to discover and connect with talent. Primarily, I accessed Recruiter through desktop, but occasionally used the mobile application to have quick access to messages I would recieve from prospective candidates.
Design Idea
Leveraging my own issues with the Recruiter mobile app, I redesigned the app to be more similar to a product like Messenger, which focuses on the messaging functionality only, whereas the existing Recruiter application allows you to view profiles and create folders or projects. Doing those things on a mobile device was too stressful for me, so I decided to keep the app WAY simpler.
The original messaging experience was clunky in Recruiter, and made it difficult to have a natural conversational flow. There were no message threads, just an inbox of individual messages that were part of a larger thread. I decided to fix this by making it a message thread format instead.
Final Design Changes
Changed the loading screen to be more contemporary and relevant to the products primary purpose: messaging.
Implemented LinkedIn's existing Inbox layout. Changed the format to have message threads rather than the previous format where every message came in individually.
Made the messaging experience also similar to LinkedIn's format. Now you can see the entire thread and look back to previous messages in the thread, as well as see incoming AND outgoing messages.
- Tools: Sketch
coded with 💛 by Anders