CHAD COOPER
chadcoopercreative.com
Visual Designer – 3D, Motion, UI
THE PROMPT
Create an environment for employees to empower one another by reenvisioning the performance review process.
THE PROBLEM
There currently isn't a system in place that keeps employee engaged in their personal growth and the growth of fellow coworkers.
THE SOLUTION
Create network that promotes continuous employee collaboration by highlighting the skills and interests of employees, while offering a place for HR to obtain meaningful data.
Introducing Meetups
A desktop tool for employees to come together to enhance each other's growth. Meetups creates an environment that promotes the sharing of skills and knowledge by connecting employees.
OBJECTIVES
At the beginning of this project, we were given a design brief that listed out many of the key components that administration leadership and employees would like to see highlighted.
I ultimately came up with three key goals of this project.
1. Collaboration
Provide a place for employees to bounce ideas off each other and share domain knowledge.
2. Reflection
Create a way for employees to see what they have done this year and who they have worked with.
3. Involvement
Allow employees to see what's going on around the office and highlight opportunities to work on their expansion plan.
Introducing
Derek Drocy
UX Designer
Derek has a few tasks to accomplish over the next few days. He's looking to meetup with someone in the company who's interested in biking so he can use better understand the needs of cyclists for the Specialized project. He plans to take some notes from that meeting and also needs to make sure he completes a peer evaluation for Chris.
Let's start a Meetup
Searching by Interests
Derek has just searched an interest within Meetups. It turns out there's a few people in the company that are interested in road biking.
Search:
Selecting a coworker
Derek has found out that Mike is interested in biking. He decides to look at his profile.
Bio:
Starting a Meetup
It looks like Mike might be the right person to provide some insight to Derek on road biking. He decides to start Meetup Invitation.
Meetup Card:
Smart Calendar and Room Availabilty
Meetups looks at both Derek's and Mike's schedules in order to recommend potential meetup times and only recommends locations and rooms that are available.
Interaction Model:
Meetup Invite Completed and Sent
Derek completes his invitation to Mike and sends it.
Filled Meetup Card:
Mike accepted Derek's Meetup Invitation
A little more about Derek:
HR follow-up after Meetup
After a meetup, a brief form is automatically sent. This form allows for Derek to reflect on the meeting, add another Meetup with Mike and give HR an idea of how their meeting went.
HR Follow-up:
1. Collaboration
Meetups allow for employees to share domain knowledge and skills, further enhancing each other's growth.
2. Reflection
HR follow-ups let employees think back to their meetup and how it progressed their discipline skillset.
3. Involvement
Meetups promotes employees, HR and leadership having conversations, keeping everyone connected.
Let's reflect on our Meetup
Notes
Notes keeps a list of every person Derek has met with, regardless if he created the Meetup or was invited. Notes does this in order to assist Derek in choosing his peer reviewers. Here Derek is leaving a note on some of the tips Mike gave him for approaching the Specialized project
Note Progression:
1. Collaboration
Notes keeps track of all of your meetups, making it easier to choose your perspective peer reviewers come review time.
2. Reflection
Notes allows employees to recall their meetups, achievements or anything they recorded at ease when it's time for their self-assessment.
3. Involvement
Providing a tool to record, keeps employees invested in the performance review process all-year.
Let's complete a Peer Review
Starting a Peer Review
Derek starts Chris' peer review but halfway through he has to head to a meeting, so he saves the peer view as a draft.
Resume a Peer Review
Derek has a notification to complete Chris' peer review and jumps back into the review.
Completeing a Peer Review
Derek has completed Chris' review and gets a confirmation that it has been sent to HR.
1. Collaboration
Meetups promotes employees sharing ideas and skills, in turn leading to more detailed and dedicated reviews from peers.
2. Reflection
Peer reviews are a time for employees to look back on the year, the use of Meetups makes recalling details easy.
3. Involvement
The peer review process garners essential feedback from fellow employees. The feedback helps keep everyone invested in employee growth.
HOME PAGE – OVERVIEW
SEARCH – OVERVIEW
EMPLOYEE BIO – OVERVIEW
MEETUP INVITE – OVERVIEW
MEETUP HR FOLLOW-UP – OVERVIEW
NOTES – OVERVIEW
PEER REVIEW – OVERVIEW
THANK YOU, INSTRUMENT
Thank you for taking the time to challenge my classmates and myself with the opportunity to work on this fun and unique project. I hope that we were able to provide some viable solutions and ideas that could create a more efficient and collaborative performance review process.
– Chad
Email: chadcoopercreative@gmail.com
