UI/UX Redesign Brought Simplicity to an Extensive HRMS Solution, for Ascent
Created a simplified design system that’s easily accessible and user-friendly, thus leading to 45% growth in monthly active users.
Ascent is a high-performing HRMS software that allows small-to-large businesses in manufacturing, retail, construction, healthcare and other sectors to manage payroll, attendance, and other HR services.
However, the system’s old functionality was hampering its usability and product growth.
The challenge here was to create a simplified design system that’s easily accessible and helps users (employees) to do their jobs better, being stress-free.
Ascent is a high-performing HRMS software that allows small-to-large businesses in manufacturing, retail, construction, healthcare and other sectors to manage payroll, attendance, and other HR services.
However, the system’s old functionality was hampering its usability and product growth.
The challenge here was to create a simplified design system that’s easily accessible and helps users (employees) to do their jobs better, being stress-free.

Objective of Design
For an enterprise application with 100s of screens, developing pages from scratch involves high costs and plenty of dev time. We aimed to identify a solution that would reduce repetitive work, increase efficiency of development, and meet qualitative expectations. Our design objective here was:
Our Process
Outcomes
Outcomes
Design Style Guide that powered the Front End Style Guide:
- A universal style guide for the platform.
- Modular and Scalable.
- Gave the front-end an all-in-one toolkit.
Front-End Style Guide that powered the developers:
- Design guide led to developers creating their own front-end style guide.
- This reduced the development time considerably, whenever a new feature or product was developed.
A Simplified Design Solution to an Extensive HRMS System with a Structured Style Guide
A Simplified Design Solution to an Extensive HRMS System with a Structured Style Guide
Impact
Business Impact
User Impact
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