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Akbank Career Recruitment Platform by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Software Design
Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel honored for software design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Software Design category for Akbank Career Recruitment Platform by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel, designed for Akbank T.a.Ş. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Akbank Career Recruitment Platform
The Akbank Career is an end to end recruitment platform that transforms hiring into a unified digital experience. By connecting candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers within a single ecosystem, it positions experience as a strategic asset. Informed by data driven research, the platform enhances transparency, accelerates processes, and improves decision making quality. As a scalable in house solution, it reduces reliance on external providers while supporting long term digital transformation.
About Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel
We’re creating a new banking experience for staff channels that differentiates us from the competition and generates new value for the customer and the business. With the goal of “being the best bank in Turkey in terms of customer experience and satisfaction”, we’ve embarked on reimagining the Akbank experience in a user-centric way.Akbank’s leadership hinges on its ability to evolve. With that, we are evolving the customer and staff channels in line with changing customer expectations and regulatory environment to be smarter, more synced up and futureproof. We are using the atomic design system.
Award Record
This recognition makes Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2025 - 2026 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Software Design Award
The A' Software Design Award is an international software design competition recognizing good software designs by leading software developers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to software designers, software developers, coders and programmers from all countries. Typical entries include applications, databases, operating systems, networks, games and simulations. The awarded software designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/software
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/181922
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/181922
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!181922
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/274334
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Akbank Career Recruitment Platform
- Function
- Recruitment Platform
- Category
- Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Red, Crimson, Maroon, Firebrick and Dark Red
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Akbank T.a.Ş
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #181922
Credits
- Image Credits
- Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.; Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026. Video Credits: Videographer, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Akbank Career is an end to end recruitment platform that combines candidate journeys and HR operations within a unified ecosystem. Beyond job listings, Explore and Blog sections transparently present company culture, working models, and development opportunities. Candidates can create personalized CVs for broader career use, track applications in real time, and message recruiters throughout the process. Recruiters and managers oversee all processes through a centralized, data informed dashboard.
- Inspiration
- The Akbank Career was shaped by the observed need for transparency, clarity, and visibility throughout the candidate journey, alongside opportunities to streamline and accelerate internal recruitment operations while eliminating dependency on external development partners.
- Research
- This project included a mixed-method design research approach to redesign Akbank’s career website throughout the entire design cycle. The objective was to understand candidates’, employees’ and hiring managers’ expectations and remove friction in job discovery and application flows. We combined interviews, workshops, usability tests, surveys, tree tests and benchmarks with over 400 participants. Insights reshaped information architecture, content tone, filters and navigation, resulting in clearer job discovery, improved application experience and a more inclusive, transparent hiring journey.
- Challenge
- The core challenge was designing a large-scale career platform that could balance speed, technical constraints, and meaningful user experience. Within tight timelines and evolving technical boundaries, the team needed to translate research insights into practical, scalable design decisions. Coordinating multiple stakeholders across HR, IT, and business units required prioritization and alignment, while ensuring that usability, clarity, and candidate confidence were never compromised.
- Realization and Technology
- The Akbank Career was developed through an iterative product development methodology grounded in user research. Adopting a user experience design approach, the experiences of candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers were addressed holistically, with prototypes and user testing conducted at every phase to validate design decisions. Built using an agile workflow, the platform is designed on a scalable and sustainable architecture integrated with internal systems.
- Operation and Interaction
- Candidates explore job opportunities at Akbank, review the company’s culture and benefits, and apply to the roles that best match them. They can easily create and download their resumes to use on other platforms. Applicants track their application status through their profile and stay informed throughout the process. HR teams and managers view all candidates and positions in a single dashboard, enabling fast and secure hiring decisions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2023 in Istanbul and finished in March, 2026 in Istanbul and was exhibited in Istanbul, 2026.
- Specifications
- This enterprise recruitment platform unifies candidate journeys, HR operations, document management, and data driven reporting within a scalable digital ecosystem. Developed with an end to end experience approach and a design-system foundation, it runs on OpenShift based backend services with an Angular frontend architecture. The platform works adaptively across web, tablet, and mobile devices.
- Keywords
- Career Website, Candidate Experience, User Experience, User Interface, Human Resources Technologies, Talent Management
