Case study — 2022
Dover — from hand-held setup to self-serve
The product worked once you were set up, and getting set up needed a person.
Facts
Role: Product designer
Year: 2022
Sector: Hiring platform (ATS)
Delivered: Onboarding and in-app customization flow · the product's first design system and its principles
Outcome: Shipped
Tags: Product design · Onboarding · Design systems · SaaS
Dover's platform was good and its setup was manual, which put a person between every new customer and the product working. I designed the onboarding and in-app customization flow so customers could configure it themselves.
Where setup broken: the flow, and what users said about it
Self-serve search criteria
Alongside it I built the product's first design system and the principles behind it, working directly with PM and engineers to scope and ship.
The first design system: type, color, and everything, consistent
Self-serve onboarding isn't a shorter version of a hand-held setup. The person doing the hand-holding was making judgment calls, and the design work is deciding which of those to expose as choices, which to default, and which to remove.
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Dover — rebuilt flows and a handmade design system to enable self-serve onboarding and faster design–engineering delivery for a hiring platform.
