Design #002: LinkedIn

Design Prompt

LinkedIn decided to build a marketplace for freelancers.
Design a flow for hiring a professional.

Duration

65 min

Brief Introduction

From personal experience, having been on the platform

1. Why – Understand your goal

• Learning about LinkedIn’s mission and value statements.
• Learn why it is important.
• Learn how it gives opportunity for people looking for jobs.
• Utilizing their LinkedIn profile is a must.
• Hiring manager don’t have to go to other platforms or leave LinkedIn to hire people. Benefits: all in one place.
• Hire manager can easily scan an applicant’s profile.

2. Who – Define the audience

• Companies looking for new employees, hiring managers, director.
• Hiring someone with reputable and knowledgable skills

3. When and Where – Understand customer’s context and needs

• I need to hire the someone to complete a project or a task.
• Desktop on a browser. Desktop platform.
• Takes under 2 mins to review the candidate base on their.
• Interview. Complete the interview process.

4. What – List ideas (A, B, C…)

• Complete the interview process.
• Web desktop platform
• Accept/Decline applicant.
• Stages of the interview process.
• A way to contact each other
• Creating a job contract
• Work progress.
• Rating approval
• Price / Payment / Invoicing / Tax
• Time Hourly
• Job board / Announcement Page.

5. Prioritize and choose an idea

1. Complete the interview process. (Great)
2. Web desktop platform
3. Accept/Decline applicant. ()
4. Stages of the interview process.
5. A way to contact each other
6. Creating a job contract
7. Work progress.
8. Rating approval
9. Price / Payment / Invoicing / Tax
10. Time Hourly
11. Job board / Announcement Page.

6. Solve

1. Gets a notification or some kind of alert that a person has signed up for a job.
2. The hiring manager clicks on the notification, and is brought to see the applicants profile resume and posts.
3. The hiring manager reviews the application. He/She can choose whether to interview the applicant or decline application.
4. The hiring manager does an interview. Determines whether he/she wants to move forward with applicant (or does round 2 of interviews) or not.
5. HM proceeds to move forward by sending contract for applicant to sign and review. [Determine how payment is handled.]
6. [Determine how ratings and approval is made.]

7. How

• How popular it is?
• How many people use it?
• Initially interest vs final result.
• Reviews

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Every Monday for about an hour, Natalia (Website & Instagram) and I do exercises from the book called “Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers” by Artiom Dashinsky. We brainstorm points 1–5 and 7 together, and work on point 6 separately.