SalAfric

The platform only works if people submit their own salaries, and submitting your salary is the single most exposing thing a professional can do online. So the product needs the thing its users are most reluctant to give, from the people who have the most to lose by giving it.

Anonymity had to be visible rather than promised. Reassurance placed in a privacy policy is reassurance nobody reads; it has to appear in the submission flow itself, at the exact moment someone hesitates over the field. The rest of the design work was making the payoff obvious first, so there is a reason to reach that moment at all.

• ·Surfaced salary ranges directly on job listings rather than behind a click
• ·Designed filtering by role, experience, location and company so the data answers a real question
• ·Designed the anonymous submission flow with its protections legible at the point of entry
• ·Built comparison views that turn raw submissions into something you can negotiate with

Fine-grained filters make the data more useful and, past a certain point, make individual submissions identifiable. Where that line sits is a design decision as much as a technical one, and getting it wrong costs the trust the whole product runs on.