people Portal is a ABSA Human Resources portal solution designed to connect ABSA employees, throughout the  Africa, to specific HR systems and platforms licensed within the organisation.

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The brief

Design an interface that presents how the ABSA HR portal would look and function post a separation from Barclays.

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Key requirements

The portal needs to be designed for desktops

The portal must be delivered within the constraints of Project Edge (project name) timeline deadline.

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Design considerations

Consider ABSA's new brand identity and evolving style guide when designing

Create an intuitive digital interface with HR

Prioritise the user’s experience

Increase uptake using user-centric design lens

Improve efficiencies, self-service and business performance

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Goals and objectives

Create a streamlined and intuitive user journey that offers a consistent, patterned UI approach.

Organise information and functional toolsets in a way that makes using the system a delight.

Improve user journey and usability issues identified by users from research.

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Solve for Behaviours

Enable intuitive HR self help transactions.

Search needs to be powerful and inclusive of various search routes and phrases.

Uses keyboard commands to copy and paste fields.

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Research

ABSA employee Persona's

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User experience (current and future)

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Features (current and future)

Usability

Sitemap

The sitemap maps out the related areas of required by the system

Iterative evolution of the information architecture is a given

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Wireframes

The wireframes outline the key navigational hierarchy, arranging the current functions and content.

The interaction zones  are structured in theF and Z flow patterns.

The flow shows a journey from landing page to search results and then to article page with function links.

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Landing page

Foregrounded search and iconographical toolset to critical and popular functions

HR communication offering with layered multimedia content offering

Consistent header navigation with instant access to multiple HR platforms

Cards that lead and connect to important articles relating HR operations and business information.

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Cards

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Article page

Bread crumb navigation option that allows to go back

Action button (Enrol Now) that allows you to perform an action once you have read the article

Download article as PDF link

Consistently presented function link related to article subject 

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Knowledge Hub

Knowledge Hub section that connects you to more personal actions and learnings

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