Indeed Redesign

Project and Goals

When this redesign project was first framed, Indeed immediately came into our sight as a popular job seeking website. However, we've constantly heard complaints from its users about not being able to fully utilize the services it provides.

Our goal was to improve the experience using Indeed by integrating its functionality with a clearer and interactive website layout, keeping consistency across different pages, while perserving the wonderful services it offer. In this redesign project, we picked four key pages, including the homepage for job seekers, homepage for employers, search result page, and job detail page.

Redesign and Prototyping

In order to gain a clearer understanding of how Indeed users evaluate their experience with the website, we conducted surveys to capture the major pain points. On top of our survey results, we also performed website analysis on its affordance, accessbility and general logic of its web navigation. Accordingly, redesign decisions were made to match our goals and were presented to feature changes between before & after.

Home for Employers

Besides the regular landing page for job seekers, Indeed also has a dedicated page for employers to showcase the services they offer to employers. From our prior research and analysis, our new design featured:

• simplified and integrated navigation bar that only contains relevant information for employers,
• interactive components on top of its static content,
• real-time calculator of the number of job seekers in the local area.

Search Result Page

The search result page is most likely the page where job seekers spend the most time on. This single page holds a ton of information, so our redesign really focused on how to get rid of the less important stuff while making sure people get what they want to without having to navigate to the job details page. Specifically, a job seeker can:

• read more job descriptions in a pop-up modal window,
• apply search filter on multiple criteria all at once.

Takeaways

This project was the very first redesign project my teammates and I took on, and we did go through a lot of obstacles along the way.

At first, we were really careful about and hesistate to change any of its existing content, even though we thought there's a better way to approach it. As we moved forward, we realized that redesign is not only about redesigning a user friendly interface, but also involves content integration and building a clearer and easier way to navigate through the website. The experience goes far beyond the user interfaces. But there are some guidelines that we must follow, which really makes the product unique. We hope that our redesign of Indeed could reflect some of the user preference with using the site and offer some insights to its current design.

Check out the final implemented redesign here!