Try the Agent: Workday
Workday · Web Design · Interaction Design
Workday says its agents get work done. This version lets you run one and see.
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Solo Designer and Developer
TEAM
1 Designer (Me)
TIMELINE
1 day
WHAT I DID
Workday's homepage promises AI that gets work done right, but its "Put AI agents to work" section asks you to take that on faith: the agents are presented in a low-res animation that you watch rather than use. I rebuilt that one section as a working agent demo, so the claim becomes something a visitor can test. The rest of the homepage stayed out of scope.
CONTEXT
Directed research, one of 25 website redesigns completed over the semester
TOOLS
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Left, Workday's current agents section, presented as an animation. Right, the redesigned section, a working agent chat.
THE CHANGE
The section became a live chat with an AI agent, organized by who is asking. Four persona tabs (Everyone, HR, Finance, and IT & Developers) change the greeting and the tasks on offer, because an agent's work looks completely different depending on the job it is doing for you.
Each persona carries real tasks, and running one plays out a full conversation. HR can pull up candidates, compare two of them, and draft the outreach. Finance can run a tax analysis or break down spend. IT can surface the requests blocking a payroll release and who owns them. The agent types, answers in sequence, and replies with structured cards and finished drafts rather than plain text, and a free-text box answers questions from the same bank of scripts.
Every conversation was written by hand, and that scripting is the design work. The output had to look like it came out of Workday (real names, numbers, and statuses), and the pacing had to feel like an agent working through a task, because the moment either one feels fake, the demo stops proving anything.
REFLECTION
The hardest part was exactly that: making the bot's output look like real Workday data, and making a scripted chat interface behave like an AI agent instead of a video with buttons. If I kept going, I would develop it into an actual AI chatbot, with a limit on how much conversation you can have in the trial version, so the demo becomes the front door to the product.