Client

HubWorx

Product

HubWorkx Mobile

Role

UI UX Designer

Year

2025

Overview

HubWorx is a mobile-first intranet and workflows platform built for growing companies that need one place for tasks, documents, approvals, and team comms. The goal was to replace a patchwork of tools (email, chats, spreadsheets, shared drives) with a secure, role-based hub that helps staff get work done faster and helps admins keep everything organized, compliant, and measurable.

Challenge

Teams were juggling announcements in chat apps, policies in shared drives, and approvals in email threads—with no clear audit trail. Onboarding was slow, tasks slipped through the cracks, and frontline staff lacked a simple, mobile way to find what to do next. Leadership wanted a unified platform that streamlined daily workflows, made policies easy to find and acknowledge, and offered clear visibility into who’s read, done, or overdue—without introducing yet another noisy tool.

Research

Stakeholder Interviews

I interviewed HR, Operations, IT, and team leads to map communication bottlenecks, approval loops, and compliance risks across departments.

Stakeholder Interviews

I interviewed HR, Operations, IT, and team leads to map communication bottlenecks, approval loops, and compliance risks across departments.

Observing Workflows

I shadowed shift handovers and daily routines to see how tasks, forms, and policy lookups happened in practice, noting breakpoints between desk and frontline staff.

Observing Workflows

I shadowed shift handovers and daily routines to see how tasks, forms, and policy lookups happened in practice, noting breakpoints between desk and frontline staff.

Surveys

I ran short pulse surveys to quantify pain points (search, approvals, notifications), preferred devices, and expectations for a mobile-first experience.

Surveys

I ran short pulse surveys to quantify pain points (search, approvals, notifications), preferred devices, and expectations for a mobile-first experience.

Competitive Analysis:

I audited the current stack (email, WhatsApp/Slack, shared drives) and benchmarked modern intranet tools to identify gaps around read receipts, role-based targeting, and task analytics.

Competitive Analysis:

I audited the current stack (email, WhatsApp/Slack, shared drives) and benchmarked modern intranet tools to identify gaps around read receipts, role-based targeting, and task analytics.

Findings

After conducting interviews, shadowing sessions, and reviewing data, I grouped insights into these 3 categories

Communication & Knowledge

  • Announcements need targeting by role/location with read receipts.

  • Staff struggle to find the “latest approved” policy version quickly.

  • Search must work across docs, announcements, FAQs, and forms.

  • New hires need a guided onboarding checklist, not scattered links.

Tasks & Approvals

  • Managers need lightweight task assignment with due dates and status.

  • Common requests (leave, equipment, incident reports) need simple forms.

  • Approvals lack visibility—who’s next, what’s blocking, SLA breaches.

  • Mobile push should respect “quiet hours” and urgency levels.

Governance & Compliance

  • Version-controlled documents and audit trails are essential.

  • Policy acknowledgements must be trackable by team and time period.

  • Role-based permissions should keep sensitive docs to the right people.

  • Analytics should show completion, engagement, and hotspots at a glance.

User profiles

Staff Employee

As a Staff Employee, responsibilities included completing assigned tasks, submitting requests via forms, acknowledging policies, checking schedules/announcements, and using search to quickly find “how-to” guides while on the move.

HR/Operations Admin

As an HR/Operations Admin, responsibilities included publishing announcements, managing policy versions, assigning tasks and approvals, tracking acknowledgements, and reporting completion/engagement to leadership.

Solution

I designed a unified, mobile-first HubWorx experience that brings tasks, announcements, documents, and approvals into one clean interface. A personalized Home shows “what’s due next,” while role-based targeting ensures each user sees the right content. A versioned Document Centre adds read receipts and acknowledgements. Forms and approvals run as guided flows with clear next steps and SLAs. Smart search spans docs, FAQs, and messages. Quiet-hour–aware notifications reduce noise. Admins get an analytics dashboard to track task completion, policy engagement, and bottlenecks—making governance visible without adding friction.

Results

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Bilal Ahmed Niazi

Bilal Niazi

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Design consultancy is free.
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Created by

Bilal Ahmed Niazi

Bilal Niazi

© 2025 All Rights Reserved

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