HR Management Dashboard
UI/UX Design for HRAD

Today’s HR professionals are no longer mere administrators. They are essential business partners. They mine vast amounts of data and extract valuable insights to inform business strategies. They drive talent retention. They build workplace culture. But the legacy software they use still treats them like mere form-fillers, payroll managers, and admins. They overwhelm users with disjointed data. On them, HR teams waste hours cross-referencing spreadsheets. They lack real-time insights into morale, diversity, or payroll trends. They are clunky. They are siloed.

HRAD wanted to change that with its powerful HR management dashboard. Their mission: convert all of this fragmented HR data into strategic intelligence. They researched countless workflows of modern HR teams and built their own platform. Pre-design, this platform framework was amazing. It helped every test user make proactive, intelligent decisions on many sophisticated aspects of workforce management. But it was still a conceptual framework. No UI. No user pathways. No visual hierarchy. No ability to actually be useful to HR teams.

“Design our HR management system from the ground up. Make sure this design enhances HRAD’s unique ability to deliver nuanced insights,” HRAD’s CTO reached out to us with this message. Our design objectives (apart from the overarching goal of custom-creating an intuitive and visually engaging platform) were to:

• Custom-Create a Centralized Command Center: The primary goal was to create a single, intuitive dashboard that consolidates all critical HR functions. Payroll. Performance. Reviews. Recruiting. Leave management. All of them. No more switching between different, non-integrated software tools to complete these functions.
• Translate Complex Data Insights: Salary trends. Compliance scores. Line graphs showing hiring numbers vs satisfaction figures. The design had to present such nuanced details in an instantly ‘grokable’ manner. It could not just display sets/series of raw numbers.
• Engineer a Scalable and Consistent Design System: The project scope was massive. We had to design 60+ pages. In both light and dark modes. The design also needed a future-proof architecture for 100+ employee metrics. Every screen had to feel familiar.

Most importantly, the platform had to be genuinely user-friendly to HR professionals of all technical skill levels.

Every interaction design had to feel clear, forgiving, and confidence-building.

Custom-creating a large-scale, data-intensive platform from a blank slate is never easy:

• No Architecture: There was no existing framework to build upon. We had to invent the entire structure from scratch. Navigation logic. Information hierarchy. Component library. Everything from scratch.
• HR Workflow Complexity: HR processes are intricate and deeply interconnected. A manager completing a performance review might need to trigger a salary adjustment recommendation in the payroll module. This recommendation must then update that employee’s profile. The big challenge was to map these complex, multi-step workflows. The bigger challenge was to make all of these workflows feel part of a simple, logical, and unified UI.
• Data Overload: HR dashboards can easily become a cluttered wall of numbers and charts. The design challenge was to present a high density of information without it feeling overwhelming. It was to convert 90% of text-based metrics into visual formats. It was to help users find the signal in the noise in seconds.

Maintaining legal compliance. Following data privacy rules. Showing users unique comparative elements (for instance, ▲13% MoM growth). Sharing trend forecasting in charts. We had to find new ways to balance a lot of responsibilities. We had to balance a ton of data richness with visual clarity.