Tanvi D. Kulkarni
www.ktanvi.com
User Experience Designer | Photographer
SkillsPro
What is the Prompt?
Instrument wants to improve their performance review process to facilitate employee growth and assist in meeting their expansion plan.
What is the problem?
Instrument hires the best people with strong skill sets, but there is always room to grow based on peer reviews and expansion plans. Providing an interactive tool to assist in leveraging your skills to other employees and promote their growth.
What is the solution?
An application focusing on planning and scheduling in-network skill development, where employee teach other employee to support peer review process and expansion plan.
What are the objectives of this project?
From the list of different user groups needs, my primary focus was on providing a tool for employees to learn additional skills from peers and empower each other.
What was the approach?
Finding the audience to see which user group could use this application to the fullest.
I designed a persona of a user, named Tejas, who is "old school" types yet loves to explore modern world. He prefers learning by meeting people personally and could clear his doubts on-the-spot. He is an achiever and likes to set goals for himself.
Wireframes
The purpose was to simply provide user with the information promoting skill development and connections with peers.
Home page conists of just 2 sections-
Top section- Skills in progress
Bottom section- Skill cards which user learned so far. Consider this as "History" and "Present" progress of an employee
Use Case 1
Assume an employee, Tejas, is working at Instrument. He is good at designing mobile applications, but wants to get exposure in Web Designing field. He prefers learning in-person. He goes to SkillsPro, sets a goal of a week to learn basics of web designing and requests his peer for a meeting. Let's see how this works.
Interaction breakdown
Use Case 2
Tejas is learning "Communication" skill from a peer named Maria Right. He feels he should check out the notes to see what he learned so far in the meeting and if there is any "to-do-list" given by Maria.
Interaction Breakdown
See how each objective has been achieved
HOME PAGE
This is the landing page after user logs in. The layout is based on "Card style". It has two sections where user can find sufficient information about planning and scheduling the skill development.
User just needs to click on "Learn a new skill" card and it takes user to the page where they input the skills to learn.
Keep on learning and achieving new goals
SKILL CARD
Skills cards provides information of their Goals achieved or ongoing goals. These goals are based on the timeline user has set to meet the peer for skill development. User can see the notes under each peer card to review what he learned during the meeting.
Helps in planning and scheduling skill development
PEER PROFILE
Peer profile lets user connect with them to learn skill personally. User needs to click Request Meeting and add a note.
Promotes one-on-one meeting experience
USER PROFILE
User profile provides user with statistical information that lets them know about skills learned since he joined the SkillsPro, Connection with peers, skills learned this month and how many goals are scheduled.
Promotes personal growth
Let's recap with a conclusion
SkillsPro lets employee leverage the skills they have to the peers. It helps in building strong in-network connections. Employees can easily plan and schedule skill development and experience learning process in-person.
I would like to thank Instrument for providing us with a project that has challenged me with each step. The solution fulfills the employee needs and meets the objectives of the performance review.
