Purple shirt takes the guesswork out of design recruitment

Auckland based user experience consultancy Purple Shirt believes that engaging a dedicated user experience consultancy to support the need to scale design teams or provide fixed-term cover not only de-risks the recruitment of user experience designers and researchers but makes the recruitment process significantly more efficient.

"For the best part of a decade we have been supporting clients by embedding highly skilled designers and researchers into existing design or product teams” says Steve Alexander, Purple Shirt’s Managing Director, “We simplify the recruitment process by providing access to a core group of senior designers that work with us exclusively, and have done so for many years."

The ability of Purple Shirt to draw on this talented group eliminates the need for a lengthy recruitment process and reduces the risk by matching capability with your business’ core requirements, sentiment echoed by Nicky Walsh, Head of Design at Serko - a global leader in corporate travel booking.

“Getting the right talent on short notice can be a significant challenge but being able to draw upon Purple Shirt’s talented team for short or long term engagements is invaluable to us as a business. The team from Purple Shirt make a valuable contribution to the experiences we deliver, our working practices and team culture.”

In addition to simplifying the recruitment process the breadth of experience the team holds is easily transferable between domains. “The team have had the opportunity to work on some amazing projects, from inflight entertainment with Air New Zealand to embedded design support across a wide range of experiences at ASB and Auckland Transport. The breadth of experience that the team is able to lean on enables them to come up to speed and deliver value straight out of the gate.” says Alexander. Purple Shirt believes that building strong partnerships with clients is critical to success as the more they know about their client’s the more long term value they can provide.

“The Purple Shirt team not only helped us navigate through a critical period in our Zeno product development process, they worked with us to build out a thoughtful and consistent approach to design and user experience. This has given us the internal capability to carry forward across our organisation and has been tremendously valuable for Serko.” says Charlie Nowaczek - Chief Operating Officer at Serko.