TalentAdore Mobile App

TalentAdore is a Finnish recruitment SaaS platform. The desktop product had grown into something fairly complex — a full ATS with candidate pipelines, messaging, job management, analytics — and the question was how to bring the core of that to mobile in a way that was actually useful rather than just a shrunken version of the desktop UI.

The design challenge

Mobile recruitment tools have a specific use case: a hiring manager or recruiter who’s away from their desk and needs to act on something. Review a candidate, leave a note, move someone forward, check the pipeline status. That’s a narrower job than the full desktop product, and designing for it meant making deliberate cuts — deciding what was essential for that context and what could wait until you were back at a computer.

I designed the interface from scratch in Adobe XD, building out the full navigation structure, key screens, and interaction flows. The prototype was interactive enough that the product and engineering teams could click through the core journeys without needing a demo — they could feel the pacing themselves.

From prototype to product

Once development started I stayed involved to keep the build aligned with the design intent. The gap between a prototype and a shipped product is where a lot of design decisions get quietly reversed — not out of laziness, but because implementation surfaces constraints that weren’t visible in XD. Being available to make fast decisions about those tradeoffs kept the final product closer to what had been designed.

It’s a part of the process I find genuinely interesting: the negotiation between what was intended and what’s actually buildable under real constraints.