Gold Website and Web Design · 2022
Kolektif Employee Platform
- A' Design Award 2022 Gold Winner in Website and Web Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Akbank T.a.Ş
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 571,971
- Verification code 7B327E8152 · Verify this award
About Kolektif Employee Platform
Kolektif is a web application where employees can track their human resources work and socialize. In this application, they can create and customize their profile pages, follow announcements, and make updates. At the same time, employees can see their colleagues' profiles, like their posts, and view the company's stories. Employees can also thank their colleagues or other teams by using the appreciation page. The new database is created through all these personal entries for employee-specific training and activity suggestions.
The Kolektif Employee Platform exemplifies contemporary approaches to internal corporate communication design, representing a thoughtful synthesis of social media interaction paradigms with professional workplace functionality. This digital interface design emerges from a tradition of human-centered design philosophy that prioritizes intuitive navigation and meaningful engagement within organizational contexts. The compositional strategy employs a sophisticated balance between information density and visual breathing room, allowing users to navigate complex content hierarchies while maintaining cognitive clarity. The crimson accent color functions as both brand identifier and interactive signifier, creating consistent wayfinding cues that guide attention toward actionable elements and engagement opportunities. Technically, the design demonstrates mastery of responsive principles through its presentation across laptop and mobile formats, illustrating how information architecture adapts fluidly to varying viewport dimensions while maintaining functional coherence and aesthetic consistency. The circular avatar treatments and story-format content modules reference familiar social platform conventions, reducing learning curves while fostering a sense of community connection among platform users. Card-based content organization creates scannable information clusters that respect contemporary attention patterns while encouraging deeper exploration through clearly articulated interaction affordances. The profile section with its follower metrics and posting activity suggests a gamification layer that may encourage participation and recognition within the organizational ecosystem. What resonates particularly is the platform's apparent commitment to celebrating employee contributions and fostering interpersonal connections, transforming utilitarian workplace communication into an opportunity for community building and professional recognition.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Kolektif is an employee platform. It offers both social and human resources functions. Each employee has a profile, and the platform offers multiple social media functions like following other profiles, posting on thee timeline, stories, post comments as well as likes. The platform also acts as a human resources platform where employees can see the latest announcements, and access different human resources functions. The medium has also an appreciation page where the employees can thank their coworkers under different categories.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Responsive design, holistic design approach to corporate identity
- Tags
- Employee Communication, Employee Experience, Services Design, Responsive Design, User Experience, User Interface, Interaction Design, Digital Interaction, Social Human Resources Platform
- Production Technology
- The project is available for desktop. Design Tools: Sketch, Principle, Illustrator, Invision, Zeplin, Abstract. Development Tools: .net 4.5, mvc, Kendo UI, Microsoft Office Sharepoint, Angular.
- Design Challenge
- There was a need for a platform where employees could be more socially active. However, human resources also needed to create a personalized database for its employees. The idea of Kolektif emerged in order to bring the priorities of the two sides together on a common platform. The employees would add special skills related to their job or personal interests to their profile and socialize at the same time. Thanks to this customized data, human resources employees would also be able to offer special activities, training, and personal development suggestions to each employee.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Istanbul and had first released in May 2021 in Istanbul. It is an ongoing process with updates depending on new needs. It is an ongoing process with updates depending on new needs.
- Operation Flow
- Through the Kolektif platform, employees can perform all their human resources affairs from a single channel. In addition, they create their own profiles and can update them whenever they want, containing their personal and work-related skills and making social shares. They can see their colleagues' information and interact with their posts. They can also thank their colleagues. With all these personal entries, a new database is created for employee-specific training and activity suggestions.
- Research
- We had workshops with our staff, human resources staff and managers to determine the needs and functions. We guided the scope studies with our workshop outputs. We conducted dashboard and social media design benchmarking research. We got meaningful insights with these researches and use them to creating personas, customer journey mappings. To evaluate our design and observed users behaviors, we ran several user testing.
- Inspiration
- Operating from its Istanbul headquarters, 19 regional directorates and 711 branches across Turkey, Akbank is staffed by more than 12 thousand employee. Thee idea behind the development of Kolektif was the create a dynamic social media platform to keep this dispersed employee base connected. By also gathering different human resources functions in a single place, the platform aims to create at most convenience to the employees
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, 2022.
Image #2: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, 2022.
Image #3: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, 2022.
Video Credits: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, 2022. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Akbank T.A.Ş, 2022
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