Spectacular

Spectacular is a social network for architects. They help architects thrive in their careers, across the globe – opening avenues for networking and mentors and reinventing how architects and firms connect with each other through a shared appreciation of their work.

Roles

Product designer

Project type

UX, UI, Product design

Year

2022

Overview

Spectacular is where firms find their next great talent and architects make their next career move. Our goal was to create a process that makes it easy to create a job posting and promote a new or existing job – helping firms quickly find the right designers and fill roles.

Challenge

Spectacular firms are frustrated with the current job creation process, it felt long and overwhelming – making for a clunky and time consuming experience. They are having trouble finding people to fill roles in this very competitive market.

Solution

This project improves the flow of creating a job post by simplifying the process and reducing complexities. It also offers firms a way to promote the job, without disrupting the user flow, so it shows in top search results and recommendations – helping firms to confidently make decisions and fill roles with the right talent.

Defining my role

As the lead designer on an agile project team, I conducted research, drew sketches, created detailed wireframes, prototypes, UI design and documentation of functional specifications, ensuring visual cohesion and engineering efficiency.

Process

After setting a vision with our stakeholders and head of engineering, I worked closely with our PM to brainstorm possible pathways.

Discover

I kicked off the design process by doing my own competitive and comparative research of direct competitors and more defined processes of popular job boards. I conducted visual studies of competitors to identify industry trends and understand what type of structure, layout and functionality is typical of this type of process. My focus was finding pain points, as well as successful processes to emulate.

Conducted visual studies of competitors to identify industry trends and understand what type of structure, layout and functionality is typical of this type of process.

Ideate

Using the feedback and insights gained from research, I created a user flow and then sketched wireframes to get my initial thoughts on paper.

Prototype

Using insights gained from ideation, I created lo-fi prototypes to get feedback around the user experience and access the technical level of effort.

Solution

Spectacular makes the process of posting and promoting a job simple and engaging. It pushes featured jobs high in the search results and connects architects to the most recommended jobs.

Create a job

When users land on the create a job posting screen, they are prompted to fill in five job specifics; Job Title, Workplace type, Location, Employment Type, and Experience Level. Each of these five specifics or “tags” can then serve as filters when searching on the global listing page. Then, job posters are asked to input job details; summary, description, tags, and a link to the job posting.

Option to promote

The job posting is now live and active. At this point, our users are given an option to “pay and promote” their job posting to gain more visibility and show up more often in search results.

Our team offered a 14-day complimentary promotion to all customers to prove their jobs would be in top search results and recommendations.

Set budget

When a user continues with a promotion, they are tasked with choosing how long they would like to promote the job and how much they are planning on spending for the promotion. The cost of promotion is $9.99/day for a minimum of seven days. Based on the user’s budget, users can choose how long they want to run the promotion for.

Secure checkout

We used Stripe to ensure a safe and secure checkout on our one-page, three step process. Spectacular users input card information and billing details before reviewing the order and confirming payment.

PROBLEMS SOLVED

Integrates all needs into one streamlined experience

Helps architects find relevant jobs in top placement recommendations

Provides a source of support with informative FAQs and chat widget

Brings clarity to critical sections using visual color cues

Gives firms an option to pay and promote a job

Ensures a safe, secure and simple checkout process

How we got there

Making it all work on mobile

Even though Spectacular is primarily used on desktop, we baked mobile responsive goodness right into our design system. I played the main role in establishing these rules and ensured that the experience works no matter the screen size.

What's next?

Paying to promote a job on Spectacular is set to launch in August 2022. After launching, the team plans to begin user testing to further iterate on the products design, features and functionality. This includes a resume builder.