Overall UXE Score
7.44
14 jurors · −0.9 vs season average
- Recognition
- Featured
- Recognized
- 3 Dec 2025
- Season
- Quarter 4, 2025
- Studio
- Plain Studio, Stockholm
- Categories
- Product Experience · B2B Product
- Platforms
- Web
01/Overview
An HR platform where onboarding, leave and reviews share one timeline per person.
Orbit gives every employee a single timeline: contract, equipment, onboarding tasks, time off and reviews, in order. HR teams stop chasing spreadsheets; managers see what’s next for each person.
Onboarding checklists are shared between HR, IT and the new hire’s buddy, so nothing falls between departments.
- Client
- In-house product
- Audience
- HR teams at companies with 50–1,000 employees
- Industry
- Business Software
- Platforms
- Web
- Status
- Live since August 2025
- Markets
- Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany
- Languages
- 5 — Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, English
02/Honors
Recognized by the editors.
Recognition
Featured
Meets the UXE standard. Earns a public profile, a badge and a place in the quarterly awards.
Conferred by the editors on 3 Dec 2025 · minimum UXE 7.0
Awards · Quarter 4, 2025
Season results- Product ExperienceNominee
01 / 12 · B2B Product
Results announced 15 Jan 2026 by the category juries.
03/Jury verdict
In the jury’s words.
“Orbit fixes the hand-offs where onboarding usually breaks. A useful, honest product for a neglected audience.”
Hana Nováková
Staff Product Designer, Brno Works · Czechia
On behalf of 14 jurors
04/Score breakdown
How the jury scored it.
- Overall UXE Score−0.9 vs Q4 2025 average
- 7.44
- Strongest criterionPerformance
- 7.8
- Jury agreementaverage spread ±0.47
- Moderate
- Jurorsof Q4 2025’s panel
- 14
- 7.6−0.9
Usability
Can people complete what they came to do — efficiently, confidently and without error?
- 7.4−1.0
Information Architecture
Is content organized, labeled and navigable in the way people actually think?
- 7.5−0.7
UI & Consistency
Is the visual language coherent and purposeful across every screen and state?
- 7.2−0.9
Interaction & Feedback
Does every action respond clearly, promptly and meaningfully?
- 7.8−0.4
Performance
Does it feel fast — perceived and measured — on real devices and networks?
Jury noteLoads fast despite shipping more JavaScript than it needs.
- 6.9−1.3
Accessibility
Can everyone use it, including people relying on assistive technology?
Jury noteTables and avatar contrast need attention.
- 7.7−0.9
Learnability
How quickly does a first-time user become a confident one?
Jury noteManagers found the per-person timeline immediately clear.
Scores are the mean of 14 jurors. Ticks mark the Q4 2025 average across 4 recognized projects.
05/The jury
14 ballotsEvery vote, on the record.
Each juror scored Orbit independently, from 1 to 10 on every criterion. Nothing is weighted by seniority and no score is discarded — the published result is simply their mean.
One juror Jury mean
| Juror | Usab | IA | UI | Inter | Perf | A11y | Learn | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hana NovákováVerdictStaff Product Designer, Brno Works · CZ | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 8.01 |
| Olivia GrantVP of Design, Harbor & Pine · US | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 7.94 |
| Jonas LindDesign Engineer, Fjordline Systems · SE | 7.5 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.84 |
| Freya HolmPrincipal Researcher, Salt Research · DK | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 8.6 | 7.76 |
| Priya RamanHead of Product Design, Tessera Cloud · IN | 8.3 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.71 |
| Yusuf DemirProduct Design Manager, Kuzey Labs · TR | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 7.67 |
| Tomasz WójcikMotion Design Lead, Kadr Studio · PL | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 6.7 | 7.9 | 7.61 |
| Kwabena AsanteService Design Lead, Adinkra Digital · GH | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.29 |
| Ravi MenonWeb Performance Engineer, Quickline · SG | 7.9 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 6.4 | 7.5 | 7.21 |
| Lukas BrennerPrincipal Product Designer, Feldwerk · DE | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 7.8 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 7.20 |
| Mateo ÁlvarezInteraction Designer, Lumbre · MX | 7.6 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 7.3 | 7.11 |
| Camille RouxCreative Director, Atelier Nuit · FR | 7.2 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 7.09 |
| Amara NwosuDesign Director, Kestrel & Vale · GB | 6.9 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 6.96 |
| Min-jun ChoDesign Lead, Seoul Form · KR | 7.0 | 7.5 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 7.3 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.79 |
| Jury mean | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 7.44 |
| Spread (σ) | ±0.42 | ±0.44 | ±0.37 | ±0.60 | ±0.42 | ±0.47 | ±0.56 | ±0.38 |
marks each juror’s area of expertise. Deeper tint, higher score.
01
Submitted
10 Nov
Entry received, free of charge
02
Jury scoring
16 Nov – 2 Dec
14 independent ballots
03
Recognized
3 Dec 2025
Featured
04
Awards
15 Jan 2026
Nominee · Product Experience
06/Screens
1 screenThe product, screen by screen.
07/Case study
From problem to proof.
The challenge
HR data lived in five tools, and new hires regularly arrived without a laptop or accounts.
The approach
Plain Studio organised the product around a per-person timeline and a shared onboarding checklist.
Research
Service blueprinting
Onboarding mapped at 8 companies
HR interviews
31 HR managers and 12 IT admins
Key insights
- 01
Onboarding fails at hand-offs between departments.
- 02
Managers want “what’s next”, not a database.
Outcomes
−60%
Day-one equipment issues
pilot companies
−4 h
HR admin per new hire
median
Outcomes are reported by the submitting team and reviewed by the jury.
08/Accessibility & performance
Built for everyone, on any device.
Accessibility
Partial WCAG 2.1 AA
Audited by In-house audit, July 2025
6.9
Jury
- Keyboard-accessible tables
- Status pills include text labels
Known gaps
- Avatar initials fall below contrast targets
- Data tables lack proper header associations
Performance
3 of 4 within budget
Moto G Power on 4G, lab median of 10 runs
7.8
Jury
| Metric | Measured | Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Largest Contentful Paint | 1.7 s (within budget) | ≤ 2.5 s |
| Interaction to Next Paint | 110 ms (within budget) | ≤ 200 ms |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.05 (within budget) | ≤ 0.1 |
| Initial JavaScript | 260 KB (over budget) | ≤ 200 KB |
Within budget Over budget
09/Design system
Gravity, the system behind Orbit.
- System
- Gravity
- Components
- 60
- Design tokens
- 140
Color
- #5B5BD6
Orbit
- #3FBF8A
Mint
- #DFF3EA
Mint wash
- #16181D
Ink
- #C47F12
Leave
Typography
Figtree
Interface
Google Fonts
UX patterns
- Directories
- Checklists
- Timelines
- Data tables
- Profiles
10/Credits
The people who made it.
Studio
Plain Studio
Stockholm, Sweden
B2B software with consumer-grade clarity — HR, payroll and operations tools.
- Founded
- 2013
- Team
- 51–200
- Recognized
- 1
Team
- Elin JohanssonHead of Design
- Oskar NilssonProduct Designer
- Maja LindqvistUX Researcher
- Viktor BergEngineering Lead
- Client
- In-house product
- Industry
- —
Built with
- Vue
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- SCIM
- Figma
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