HumanCode Studios™

OpenLaszlo - Monster.com Home Pages for Seekers + Employers

Combining a decade of “Home Page” usability and focus-group results on what Monster’s users would like most from the Monster.com home page, we created a contained experience using OpenLaszlo and Adobe Flash that provided instant user-experience gratification (no re-directs) of user controls. For Job Seekers, the functions such as job search, member login, job search results, collapsible advertising and broadcast video are all functional from within the same working view.

For Monster’s Employer home page an identical design and development approach was taken with the addition of expandable advertising “modules” to accommodate alternative revenue streams such as “featured employers” and “special offers”.

In terms of global site consistency, both versions followed the same control/feature/function layout. – i.e., searching for jobs exhibited the same user behavior as searching for resumes. Unifying user control behaviors such as this, regardless of their source (seeker or employer) created a consistent, integrated user experience for either side of the business.