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James Buchanan

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Xero open banking

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JobSmart

Over the last few months I have been focusing on designing a new Job advertising platform. The recruitment space is changing at a rapid pace, placing a role can now take a matter of minutes rather than days for senior contract roles. We had to completely re-think the classified business model and design for this new era or recruiting. Our main competitor is Seek who have over 1000 staff we have about 30 in the Jobs team. Working closely with our Product Manager and Delivery team we have achieved some great results so far.

Feedback from our customers:
"Finding it easy and fun to use"
"Far more user-friendly than Seek talent search"
"Have gotten results from Scout"

334% growth in active weekly users June to December 2018

Scout had 12K candidate searches last month (November 2018)

68% of target users returning daily.

20K CV downloads

Trade Me

https://trademe.nz/jobs

I have been designing the Trade Me Jobs web platform since January 2015. Over that time our team has seen a number of key successes:

Over 140,000 Job Profiles created

20% increase in conversion rate on the Jobs listing page (Desktop site)

Nearly doubled the conversion rate of the new Jobs application page

Working across three Agile squads UX and product design

Promoted listing - Trade Me Jobs

The problem:

Create a premium product that has a higher value than our featured or branded listings. Also consider how this product will work in the future. Initial experiment tested variants with and without images, the image version had considerably higher CTR, watchlists & applications.

Made $61,000 so far (in two months)
• Views increased
• Applications increaed
• Average of $214 per listing

Design Thinking

ANZ Responsive Design

onlinestore.anz.co.nz/get/home-loan

FED Lead

Responsive Web Design

HTML5 + CSS3

Designed for Retina (high definition) screens

 

ANZ Adaptive design

https://tools.anz.co.nz/savings/long-term-savings-calculator/

Desktop:

https://tools.anz.co.nz/personal-accounts/which-account/

Mobile:

https://tools.anz.co.nz/personal-accounts/which-account/true

ANZ Calculators

https://tools.anz.co.nz/home-loans/repayments-calculator - Desktop & Tablet

https://tools.anz.co.nz/home-loans/repayments-calculator/true - Smartphone

Visual Design of smartphone navigtion

User Experience Design

User Interface Development

 

Telecom | Wholesale

www.telecomwholesale.co.nz/

UI Development

HTML5

CSS3

Webshpere Portal

App4IR Challenge

http://ird.azurewebsites.net/Home/Index

Competition for IRD - create a winning mobile app idea for Inland Revenue's small business customers and win the chance to collaborate on the app’s development funded by Inland Revenue, and get $10,000 for your design.

 

Audi

View Audi A5 video

View Audi A6 video

Flash 

Actionscript

Chelsea Sugar

www.chelsea.co.nz

NV started with an extensive and analytical review of the company's website and digital strategy. Together, NV and Chelsea looked at what drove people to the site and how they were interacting with it. From there, a set of objectives was defined along with specific strategies and the key metrics that would be used to measure their success.

Monique says, “Our key measurement tools for the site were unique visitors, recipe club membership, page views and for our fortnightly newsletter we were looking to increase subscribers and increase open rates and click throughs”.

Front End Development

Content Migration

AVOSA

www.avosa.co.nz

User Experience Consultancy 

User Interface Development

ARISE

www.arisechurch.org.nz

www.passionate.org.nz/

User Interface Development

User Experience Design

Twitter Bootstrap

Snapper iPhone App

Native iPhone App concept

Visual Design

 

Save My Bacon

https://www.savemybacon.co.nz/

Save My Bacon provides small, short-term cash loans ($100 - $500) to New Zealanders who need a quick solution to their short-term and urgent cash flow challenges.

XHTML + CSS

 

 

Product Design

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JobSmart

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Trade Me

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Design Thinking

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ANZ Responsive Design

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ANZ Adaptive design

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Long term savings calculator

ANZ Calculators

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ANZ

Telecom | Wholesale

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App4IR Challenge

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Audi

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Chelsea Sugar

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AVOSA

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ARISE

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Snapper iPhone App

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Save My Bacon

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Product Design

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