20+ hrs

Saved monthly


20-30%

↑ Response rates

TL;DR

  1. Saved 20+ hours per month on user research, allowing faster product improvements.
  2. Optimized features like HR Desk quickly through AI-driven analysis of user feedback.
  3. Enabled faster, data-driven decision-making and prioritization of product enhancements.
  4. Boosted survey response rates to 20-30% using targeted, event-driven surveys without coding.

HROne's dashboard

HROne, a leading HRMS platform, has earned a spot among the top 3 highest satisfaction products worldwide, serving a diverse user base ranging from startups to large enterprises. Maintaining this level of satisfaction requires more than just strong features - it demands constant, actionable user insights. By partnering with Blitzllama, HROne transformed its user research process, enabling the company to quickly gather, analyze, and act on feedback to improve features, design, and overall user experience. This case study explores how Blitzllama’s AI-driven tools helped HROne enhance product development, improve customer satisfaction, and stay ahead of the competition.

About HROne

HROne is a comprehensive Human Resource Management System (HRMS) designed to automate and simplify HR tasks, from onboarding to offboarding. The platform integrates key HR functions such as payroll, attendance, performance, and recruitment management, making it an all-in-one solution for businesses of all sizes. HROne’s mobile app extends these capabilities, allowing employees and HR professionals to easily access key functions like attendance tracking, leave management, and performance monitoring. The platform’s customizable workflows ensure scalability, and its self-service options enable employees to manage personal information independently.

HROne’s mission is to streamline HR processes, improve employee experience, and enable data-driven decision-making for businesses.

HROne’s competitive edge

HROne's commitment to customer-centric product development has earned it a spot in the top 3 on G2's 2024 Highest Satisfaction Products amongst 117,000 products worldwide. This recognition places HROne ahead of many well known companies, such as Monday.com (#10), Notion (#41), Intercom (#67), and JIRA (#97), underscoring its ability to deliver consistent value through continuous product improvement.

In an industry where HR tools are often criticized for being clunky and difficult to use, HROne stands out for its ease of use, consistently highlighted by users as a key benefit. Of HROne’s 1,505 verified reviews on G2, an impressive 69% specifically mention ease of use, validating the platform’s user-friendly design and functionality.

User reviews raving about ease of use of HROne on G2.

The role of user research in HROne's success

HROne’s ease of use has been a key factor in its success, but maintaining this level of user satisfaction requires constant product improvement. This is where effective user research plays a critical role, along with UI/UX and product stability. To stay ahead in a competitive market, HROne needed a way to continuously gather actionable insights from its users, ensuring that every new feature meets customer expectations.

Why user research is essential for HROne

With multiple products and diverse user personas, HROne manages a complex platform. Its success with ease of use relies on constant improvements through effective user research. To remain competitive in the HR software market, HROne needed a way to continuously gather actionable insights from its diverse user base, which spans industries and businesses of all sizes.

HROne’s user research efforts faced several challenges, including:

  • Reaching diverse users: Gathering feedback from a representative sample across industries and company sizes was difficult.
  • Low response rates: Encouraging busy professionals to provide detailed feedback proved challenging.
  • Specificity of feedback: Users struggled to articulate actionable feedback on complex features.
  • Prioritization: Sorting through thousands of pieces of feedback to identify priorities was time-consuming.
  • Survey fatigue: Frequent feedback requests risked disengaging users.
  • Timing: Feedback requests during critical tasks could skew results.

From the very beginning, we’ve focused on building a product that stands on its own, driven by customer needs and feedback. Our mission has always been to create a platform that delivers value without relying on aggressive sales tactics. To do that, we’ve embedded a customer-first culture into our product development process.

- Karan, Founder, HROne

How HROne streamlined research process using Blitzllama

Blitzllama played a pivotal role in addressing these challenges by allowing HROne to create specific user cohorts and launch targeted, event-driven surveys - all without coding. This approach ensured feedback was collected from the right users at the right time, improving response rates to as high as 20-30%. Blitzllama’s survey throttling feature also prevented survey fatigue, ensuring users weren’t overwhelmed with requests. While Blitzllama’s UI customization of text and color made the survey UI look consistent with the product’s UI.

By integrating seamlessly with HROne’s workflows, Blitzllama provided actionable insights that allowed the team to make data-driven product improvements without overburdening users.

Aligning product roadmap with user needs.

Using Blitzllama’s Pulse feature, HROne quickly gathered insights from hundreds of employees across industries in a few hours. Feedback on features like Reward & Recognition and Background Verification Services enabled HROne to prioritize key integrations, including Online Test Assessments and E-signature features. This rapid feedback collection allowed HROne to align its product roadmap with user needs in days, ensuring faster decision-making and better feature adoption.

Blitzllama has transformed the way we gather and act on user feedback. The ability to collect targeted, real-time feedback means we can make faster, data-driven decisions and prioritize improvements that directly impact user satisfaction.

- Bhupesh Chandrawanshi, Product Manager, HROne

Blitzllama’s AI-driven analysis helped HROne optimize its HR Desk feature by revealing that a significant portion of users who rated it 5 stars interacted with the new App View feature and expressed a need for an Attendance Feature. Additionally, those who rated the feature poorly mentioned specific user experience issues. These insights allowed HROne to address specific pain points quickly, improving overall satisfaction without relying on guesswork.

Gathering feedback on new features releases

Blitzllama’s event-driven surveys allowed HROne to collect real-time feedback on new design implementations, including for the Profile Redesign.

  1. New profile design survey feedback: The survey achieved a 27% response rate, with 76% of users rating the new profile design 5/5, validating its appeal and allowing the team to proceed with minimal revisions.
  2. Targeted issue resolution: Blitzllama’s AI uncovered a critical insight - dissatisfaction with the Attendance feature was mainly due to specific design issues. The team swiftly focused on improving usability, and streamlining user interactions within this feature. These targeted improvements directly addressed user frustrations, resulting in increase in user ratings for the Attendance feature and a reduction in support tickets related to it.

Outcomes and benefits

Blitzllama enabled HROne to streamline its user research process, leading to several key outcomes:

  • Time Savings: HROne reduced research time by over 20 hours per month, allowing for faster product improvements.
  • Rapid Feature Optimization: AI-driven analysis helped HROne optimize specific features like HR Desk by identifying pain points and user preferences quickly.
  • Faster Decision-Making: The streamlined research process allowed HROne to make data-driven decisions and prioritize improvements more quickly.
  • Streamlined Feedback Collection: Blitzllama's tools allowed HROne to create specific user cohorts and launch targeted, event-driven surveys without coding, improving response rates to 20-30%.

By leveraging Blitzllama’s AI-driven tools, HROne was able to prioritize user-centric product development, ensuring that its platform continues to meet and exceed customer expectations.

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