Working from the MVP definition and UI mockup in my previous story, I needed to build something to work on a mobile device. …

At Persona, we use Trello extensively to organise and plan our days and sprints to build awesome recruitment products. But, as I covered in my previous post, as great as Trello is, we struggle to get it work for our daily stand-ups for retrospectively looking at the previous day. …

At Persona we rely on Trello to communicate our progress in our day-to-day work. The thing we love about Trello is that it is so flexible that it allows us to mould it to the way we work, whilst still providing features that makes it simple yet powerful. We have…

I had recently held an interview with an enthusiastic Computer Science student, hoping to join the Persona team on one of our internship streams. Unfortunately his technical ability wasn’t suitable for the position, but we were gutted, as he seemed like a great guy. However, I did compile some tips…

Following on from my last post, I decided to define the scope of the solution for the problem I had discovered. Problem: When it takes longer than normal to be picked up, the driver has no way to express the problem and pickups have no way of knowing. Things to consider: The driver cannot…

After defining what the problem was that this solution would solve: When it takes longer than normal to be picked up, the driver has no way to express the problem and pickups have no way of knowing. I began to break down what we what to achieve here, as a…

When our office at Persona moved into the middle of no-where, it took me 1 hour and a half from door-to-door to get into the office; and a similar time for my colleagues. …

In my previous story, I had spoken about the teardown that I performed on a subset of vacancies our users have posted on Persona. Following that, the next stage was to make sure that our users have the right tools to carry out their tasks and in the manner in…

At Persona we have recently discovered what our products are hired for and who has the pains our products solve. Following that we have redefined our product offerings and messaging. …