jgunson

I joined Humaans as the first dedicated Product Designer, working closely with the founders and small team of developers to design, test and release a number of key features.

I also closely supported the Sales team in their acquisition efforts, translated a code-only component library into Figma, and set-up the internal critique and research processes.

Every good SaaS product has to tackle user permissions, and Humaans was no exception. In my first week, I worked to create a system that allowed admins to assign permissions / control access of users based on their role and what they needed to do inside the platform.

Rather than taking a role based approach, we opted to give granularly control over both the access each user had to employee data and their capabilities within the product. This approach supported the broad set of users (HR, IT, People Managers etc.) and the associated jobs they peformed on the platform.

As part of Humaans’ broad and integrated offering, we were able to provide users access to a range of discount, allowing them to add new tools to their stack and then integrate with Humaans to ehnance their workflows in the platform.

Check out the feature announcment over on Twitter and the Humaans blog.

A big part of Humaans' propostion was to allow users to centralise all their employee data from any tool in their “HR stack”.

I was tasked with creating a dedicated section within the product, which allowed users to manage and monitor their integrations, along with viewing the overall status.

The natural next step, beyond just syncing data from integrations, was to allow users to create workflows using the data and events from 3rd party products, the first of them being ContractBook.

I was responsible for desiging a workflow that allowed users to utilise data from live contracts created as a result of certain events within the employee lifecyle (e.g. employement offers, compensation changes, contract updates and more).

Crucially, it also needed to highlight the status of the integration, allow users to identify errors, suggest appropriate fixes, and retry syncing once fixed.