Total Compensation deserves more attention
A path to integrated behaviors.
Challenge ↓
Lack of awareness around the Total Compensation feature.
Introduction
Through 10+ user interviews and data analysis, we learned the problem wasn’t just low adoption it was invisibility. The feature simply wasn’t part of the workflow. The users didn’t know it was there.
Quest
We moved it from being hidden behind a button to being part of the user journey.
Outcome: Integration as the Strategy
We didn’t just redesign the interface. We redefined how users discover and access compensation answers transforming it from a buried button into a central part of the product journey.
Building micro interactions
One key challenge was clarity: helping users understand how adding fields impacts their compensation, as clearly as water. That’s why I built an strategic edit mode that will allow users to edit everything and understand what percentages, or dollar value, how it all affects your total comp.
Thinking in perspective
Users needed supporting options tied only to Total Compensation from resets to PDF exports.
What I learned
- Design clarity means mapping to real processes → I learned that isolating such a critical answer behind a button created unnecessary friction. If most users need salary answers, why make them work harder?
- Integration drives adoption → Adoption doesn’t come from adding features, but from embedding them seamlessly into workflows, where they feel like part of the natural process.