Building an immersive, AI-driven interview experience to drive candidate performance.
How can we help job seekers who feel overwhelmed or anxious when preparing for interviews and improve their chances of success in a competitive job market?
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Overview
Contribution
User Research and Discovery
UX Strategy and Flow Design
UI Design and Prototyping
Design System Creation
Usability Testing
Team
1x Product Manager
1x Product Designer
1x Engineering Manager
2x Software Engineer
Role
Product Designer
Timeline
Sep 2023 - October 2024
Research & Discovery
User interviews: Uncovering needs, pain points, tools used
Competitor review
Heuristic evaluation: Identifying common UX issues in existing tools
Surveys: Capturing broader preferences and behaviours
Secondary research: Looking at industry trends/existing data
Stakeholder input: Aligned on goals, constraints, and success metrics
Ideation & Solution Exploration
Concept theming/Clustering
Pain Point prioritisation
Rapid idea generation
Feature mapping to user needs
Low-fi sketching and wireframing
Flow development
Internal crit of variations
Prototyping/Testing
Recruited users for testing
A/B variations
Order varied between participants to avoid bias
Open ended questions to test content and nav preferences
Insights used to tweak winning designs
Retested designs as a whole flow, with fully functioning prototypes
Launch & Iteration
Discovery
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Finding
Research Findings
Early career individuals lack a network to support with preparation and struggle most in prep.
Early career individuals lack a network to support with preparation and struggle most in prep.
Early career individuals lack a network to support with preparation and struggle most in prep.
Early career individuals lack a network to support with preparation and struggle most in prep.
The Problem
Preparing for job interviews can be overwhelming, inconsistent, and often inaccessible.
Candidates need a solution that offers realistic, personalised, and accessible interview practice to build confidence and improve performance—without relying on human coaches or generic advice.
Research & Discovery
Pain Points
It’s hard to prepare for the nerves you feel on the day during the real thing.
Feature mapping
I want to practice answering unexpected questions, but I can’t surprise myself.
I keep practicing but I don’t know if I’m improving or just repeating the same mistakes.
Solution & Ideation
User Flow