In short
- Challenge
- Keep an all-in-one, highly granular HR platform simple for every kind of user.
- Approach
- User workshops, configurable onboarding, role-based views and one shared pattern across every module.
- Result
- Live, managing 57,000+ employees, with AI saving recruiters 45% of first-screening time.
Context
Eyawork is an AI-native HR operations platform, now live and used by large organisations. It brings recruiting, payroll, reporting and employee management together in one place.
We built it as a team spread across several countries, and I was one of its product designers. The product had to be extremely granular, because HR rules, structures and permissions differ from one company to the next, and from one country to the next.
The thread of this story
All-in-one vs simplicity
Every module and every granular option adds weight. Get it wrong, and the product that does everything becomes the product where nobody can find anything. In workshops with users across the modules, one question kept coming back: who actually needs this, and when? The honest answer was rarely “everyone”.
We didn’t want to choose. So we made the platform adapt to each company and each person, in three ways.
01
Setup decides the detail
Onboarding is where each company tells Eyawork how it works. That setup decides how much detail people see across the whole platform. A single shop sees a simple record; a group across countries sees every field it needs. And it’s editable at any time, as the company changes.
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Profile details
Illustrative recreation in Eyawork’s interface style. The setup can change at any time; the platform adapts.
02
Each role sees its own platform
An employee, a manager, HR and finance don’t need the same screens. Role-based views give each person a focused version of Eyawork: their own modules, their own numbers, their own next step.
Employee
4 of 8 modules
Sees: Home, Payroll, Time off, Documents.
Manager
5 of 8 modules
Sees: Home, People, Recruiting, Time off, Reports.
HR
Every module
Sees: Home, People, Recruiting, Payroll, Time off, Documents, Reports, Settings.
Finance
4 of 8 modules
Sees: Home, Payroll, Reports, Settings.
03
One pattern, every module
Recruiting, payroll, reporting and people all share the same layouts and components. Learn one module, and you already know your way around the next. For a product this big, consistency is what makes it feel small.
AI, built in
AI isn’t a feature bolted onto Eyawork; it runs through the whole platform. It parses CVs and extracts skills, experience and education. It raises alerts when something needs attention, and it makes suggestions that help people decide faster across hiring, payroll and workforce planning.
Our job as designers was to make all that intelligence feel calm and trustworthy: clear about what the AI did, easy to check, and always leaving the final call to people.
Result: 45% time saved for recruiters on first screenings, assisted by AI.
Outcome
Eyawork is live and already manages more than 57,000 employees at enterprise scale. Recruiting, payroll, reporting, documents and employee management live in one platform that still feels like one product, whoever you are and however big your company is.