GoodSpace
Job-matching & AI hiring
Sole designer on the product squad — mobile app, marketing site, AI interview, AI career copilot, and the recruiter dashboard.
- Industry
- GoodSpace
- Expertise
- Sole product designer
- Development period
- 2021 — 2022
- Deliverables
- Mobile app / web / recruiter dashboard / AI concepts
About the project
Sole designer on the product squad — mobile app, marketing site, AI interview, AI career copilot, and the recruiter dashboard.
Challenge
Hiring products have to serve candidates and recruiters while keeping AI assistance explainable.
Result
A connected hiring ecosystem spanning job discovery, recruiter workflows, AI interview feedback, and career assistance.
Problem
Candidates and recruiters needed one connected hiring experience with explainable AI assistance.
Role
Sole product designer
Key decisions
Designed candidate mobile, AI interview, recruiter dashboard, and marketing surfaces.
Outcome
A hiring ecosystem spanning discovery, recruiter workflows, AI feedback, and career assistance.
Executive summary
The project in one scan.
- Status
- Client / professional work
- My role
- Sole product designer
- Deliverables
- Mobile app / web / recruiter dashboard / AI concepts
- Problem
- Hiring products have to serve candidates and recruiters while keeping AI assistance explainable.
- Key decisions
- Designed candidate mobile, AI interview, recruiter dashboard, and marketing surfaces.
- Outcome
- A connected hiring ecosystem spanning job discovery, recruiter workflows, AI interview feedback, and career assistance.
Context
As the sole designer on GoodSpace's product squad, I owned the full UX surface — a job-matching mobile app, the marketing site, an AI Interviewer practice tool, an AI Career Copilot for candidates, and a recruiter-facing AI hiring dashboard.
The job market in 2021–22 was crowded. LinkedIn owned B2B social. Naukri and Indeed owned volume. Differentiation required experiences the incumbents didn't offer — and a tone that didn't feel like a database.
The strategy was simple to state, harder to execute: build the AI features they don't have, keep the core experience warmer than they are, ship five surfaces with one designer.
Decision 01 · Mobile experience
Job hunting,without the dread.
The job-app archetype is anxiety-inducing — list views of rejection-prone opportunities, dense filter panels, the same five logos on every page. GoodSpace pushes back on that with three moves:
First-name greeting on launch
"Good morning, Alex! 👋" — a small humanizing touch that signals the app remembers you. Adds zero engineering complexity, changes the emotional tone of the surface entirely.
Search dominates, filters fade
A wide search field with one trailing filter icon. Power users still get fine-grained filtering; first-timers aren't faced with a wall of controls.
Recommended for you, with rationale
The hero job card includes the company logo, salary band, posting age, and skill tags from the user's profile. The match isn't a black box — it shows the user why.
Decision 02 · AI Interviewer
Practice interviews,honest feedback.
The AI Interviewer is the headline differentiator. Most job platforms stop at “apply” — GoodSpace helps you practice for the actual interview.
The screen is a video session with an AI panellist (configurable role — Product Designer, Engineer, PM). On the right, a live Interview Assistant tracks:
- Skills covered — checkmarks as the interview progresses
- AI insights — communication style, signal strength, technical clarity
- Performance trend — real-time score, with the previous question's answer ready for review
The design choice that mattered most: feedback during the session, not just after. Letting a candidate course-correct mid-interview is more useful than a graded report at the end.
Decision 03 · Recruiter dashboard
Pipeline summary,judgment intact.
Recruiter tools tend to fail in two opposite ways: too much data with no signal, or too much AI automation with no oversight. GoodSpace's “Hire smarter” dashboard threads the middle.
Four KPIs above the fold
Active Roles, Applications, Interviews Scheduled, Offer Acceptance — the metrics a recruiter looks at first thing in the morning. The numbers aren't static; they include trend deltas.
Pipeline table with photos
Candidates appear with avatars, not just names. Recruiters work in faces and stories; the design respects that.
AI Recruiter Assistant, side panel
Suggests "move 3 candidates to Phone Screen" or "schedule final-round for 2 in pipeline." Actionable, dismissable, never auto-acting. Judgment stays with the human.
Decision 04 · For candidates
A career copilot,not a career coach.
The AI Career Copilot reads the candidate's profile, identifies skill gaps based on their target role, surfaces salary insights, and recommends next actions — without becoming the pushy app that reminds you to apply every two hours.
Two surfaces, one continuous experience: the Copilot view (above) for proactive guidance, and My Applications (below) for the actual application timeline. The applications view is structured around stages — Applied, Under Review, Interview, Offer, Rejected — with the count for each at the top. A timeline at the bottom shows the journey of each application so the user remembers what they did and when.
Outcome
Shipped five distinct surfaces in seven months as the sole designer: mobile app, marketing site, AI Interviewer, AI Career Copilot, and the recruiter dashboard. The AI Interviewer was the differentiator referenced most by users; the Career Copilot drove the highest retention among job-seekers.
Biggest takeaway: AI features in HR tech only work when they augment human judgment instead of replacing it. Every screen here ends with the human making the call.
Role
Sole designer on the squad
Studio
GoodSpace
Years
2021 — 2022
Surfaces
iOS · Android · Marketing web · Recruiter dashboard
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