Kicklox is an engineering and technology consulting platform. It is a community of nearly 70,000 engineers who work (on projects either on a freelance basis or as permanent employees) for clients, facilitated by a digital platform that enables seamless connection and project management.

Role: UX/UI Designer
Timeline: Oct. 2018 – June 2019
Site: kicklox.com
Squad: PM, UX/UI Designer, FE & BE Devs
Goals: The initial version of the platform had technical limitations and regulatory constraints. To address the clients’ challenges with time-consuming processes and a lack of user-friendliness, I conducted client needs assessment, streamlined workflows, and created a more efficient interface. The goal was to enhance usability by removing unnecessary options and improving overall user experience.
Tools: #Sketch #Flinto #Zeplin #Invision #Photoshop

Tender processus creation:

Our Clients – companies – on Kicklox are looking for talent in engineering. The platform allows them to create public tenders but it turns out it\’s a very long process and most of them ask our sales team to do it for them. My goal was to create an interactive process to improve the workflow depending on the client\’s choices and allow them to do it easier and quickly.

Feed:

Experts use the feed to find public tenders from the clients and apply to them, and clients use it to find their future talent.

Expert’s view

Client’s view

Messenger:

To help communication between the client and the expert, we set up an intern messaging service.

Lots of clients need to speak with experts but also with their teams. To hire an expert they are several to make decision. For example: CEO, HR and Lead tech. This service allows clients to communicate notes, seen by the client\’s team only.

With all these processes, hiring an expert could be done on the platform.

Kanban:

To follow the recruitment process, clients have access to a kanban. It allows them to check in which step they are with their candidates, until the final recruitment.

There are four mandatory columns and clients could add more if they need it in their process. It allows clients to adapt their process on the platform. They all have their own recruitment steps.

Proposal and funding:

When clients and experts have an agreement, they sign a technical and financial proposal. They can do it on the platform which allows them to follow the progress of the project with milestones.

Next, experts can send part of the project for validation and clients can pay step by step the progress.