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CASE STUDY
Jobtogo 2.0
A redesigned, high-trust freelance marketplace that makes Jobtogo’s curation feel as considered as the service behind it.
THE BRIEF
A redesigned, high-trust freelance marketplace that makes Jobtogo’s curation feel as considered as the service behind it.
Jobtogo already had the trust — vetted freelancers, vetted companies, real delivery on both sides. What it didn't have was an interface that said any of that. We rebuilt it from the ground up.
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Client — Jobtogo
Industry — Freelance talent marketplace & work management
Services — Product audit, UX/UI redesign, design system
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The Challenge
Jobtogo hand-picks both sides of every match — real freelancers, real clients, real delivery. That's a fundamentally different model from an open marketplace. The interface didn't say any of that.
Unlike volume platforms where anyone can list a gig, Jobtogo vets who gets in. That curation is the entire value proposition. But visually and structurally, the product read like a generic marketplace template — nothing distinguished "vetted and safe" from "open and unregulated." On top of that, the team wanted freelancer profiles to double as a shareable portfolio, which meant the interface wasn't just internal tooling anymore — it was public-facing product marketing for every freelancer who used it.
Value without a face — The curation was real, but nothing in the product communicated it.
Competing without meaning to — The interface read like any other freelance marketplace, easy to mistake for the volume platforms Jobtogo was built to be better than.
A profile with two jobs — It had to work as an in-platform credential and as a portfolio freelancers could share outside Jobtogo entirely.
No visual case for trust — Nothing in the UI gave either side a reason to feel safer here than anywhere else.
How We Approached It
Starting with foundations — Before touching a single screen, we audited the existing product end to end and aligned with the team on what Jobtogo was actually trying to be, not just what it currently did.
Drawing the line against open marketplaces — We looked closely at how platforms like Upwork operate: high-volume, lightly regulated, open to anyone. That became the line Jobtogo needed to visually and structurally move away from. Both sides of the platform needed to feel the difference, not just be told about it.
Rebuilding flow by flow — With the positioning clear, we went through the existing product flow by flow, understanding what each one was trying to do and where it was falling short of the trust the business had already built.
What We Shipped
A profile built to travel — The freelancer profile was redesigned to function as a standalone portfolio, something freelancers could point clients to outside the platform entirely, not just an in-app listing.
A dashboard that earns its space — Instead of surfacing all available data, the new dashboard shows what actually matters day to day: balance, ongoing projects, past clients, availability, and inquiries.
Jobtogo 2.0 — Across the board, core flows were rebuilt to finally reflect the curated, high-trust positioning Jobtogo had earned but wasn't showing.
The Result
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