ElevateHR · HR Tech
Making payroll and employee management legible for HR teams.
An HR and payroll SaaS dashboard for managing employee information, payroll and administrative processes.
About Project
ElevateHR is an HR and payroll platform built for organizations managing teams across multiple workspaces. Admins run payroll, approve leave, issue salary advances and track people metrics from one dashboard, while employees log in to request leave, view payslips and manage their own details.
The problem
HR and payroll software tends to bury people in dense administrative data, making simple tasks feel complicated.
The approach
Designed dashboards and workflows for managing employee information, payroll and administrative processes with a clearer information hierarchy.
Design process
Owned this end to end, from stakeholder interviews to the shipped admin and employee portals.
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Discovery
Interviews with HR admins and employees to map existing payroll and leave workflows.
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Personas & IA
Defined the admin and employee personas, then mapped both portals into one shared architecture.
03
Wireframes
Low-fidelity layouts for the dashboard, payroll and reports flows to validate structure before styling.
04
UI design
Applied a consistent dashboard system built to hold dense, information-heavy data without overwhelming admins.
05
Testing & handoff
Walked admins through payroll and leave workflows, then documented specs for engineering.
User research
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Interviews
Sessions with HR admins and employees across existing client organizations to understand how they ran payroll, tracked leave and handled reporting before ElevateHR.
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Admin goals
Run payroll accurately across multiple organizations, approve leave and salary advances quickly, and pull headcount and payroll reports without exporting to spreadsheets.
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Employee goals
Check payslips, request leave, and see their own information without going through HR for every small update.
Personas
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The HR Admin
Runs payroll for one or more organizations
Manages employee records, payroll cycles, leave approvals and salary advances. Needs a fast, low-error way to move between organizations and see the numbers that matter, headcount, payroll cost, pending approvals, without digging.
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The Employee
Self-serves for routine HR tasks
Logs in occasionally to check a payslip, request leave, or update personal details. Wants these tasks to take under a minute, with no need to understand the admin side of the platform.
Information architecture & user journey
Two portals sharing one login and one data model, admins managing the organization, employees self-serving.
Sign up / Log in
Admin Portal
Employee Portal
Admin's core journey
Sign up
Set up workspace
Run payroll
Manage leave
Review reports
Onboarding & workspaces
Confirm email to activate account
Manage multiple organizations from one login
Admin dashboard
Leaves, reports & salary advance
Leave requests, approve or decline in bulk
Reports, headcount, payroll and gender split
My contribution
Designed the SaaS platform end to end, from research through to the workflows admins use daily.
- User research: Ran interviews with HR admins and employees to understand existing payroll and leave workflows.
- Information architecture: Mapped the admin and employee portals and the sections within each.
- Dashboard & workflow design: Designed multi-organization switching, payroll processing, bulk leave approvals, and reporting for information-heavy screens.
- Employee self-service: Designed the simplified employee portal for payslips, leave requests and profile updates.
Outcome
20+
Businesses onboarded
10,000+
Employees served
Strengthened the ability to design for information-heavy environments, a dashboard HR teams could navigate without training.