Redesigning Employee Search...

There have been instances when I wanted to find a person really quick but I am lost in the interesting First name, last name confusions (Western countries address people mainly by Last Name and in India most of the time it is the First name). Adding to that is the problem to filter out people from a huge list of search results that I get for a common name like Ram or Raj.

So I sat down with my paper pencil and did some work considering the user goals. Pulled up Visio and quickly made a proto….and its here….

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