JobGurus (Bright Studios)

Designing a path-first product for newcomers navigating the Canadian job market.

JobGurus (Bright Studios)

Designing a path-first product for newcomers navigating the Canadian job market.

JobGurus (Bright Studios)

Designing a path-first product for newcomers navigating the Canadian job market.

2026

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Education

JobGurus is built on a simple observation: the career tools people rely on — job boards, course sites, consultants — all stop short of showing the actual path. You get a list of openings you can't qualify for yet, or a course with no evidence that it connects to a role. Nobody maps the distance between where you are now and where you need to be.

The founder wanted a website that does exactly that. Starting with one trade, one province, one path laid out end to end. The scope was five pages — Home, Career Path, Jobs, Job Detail, How It Works — with Electrician in Ontario as the launch showcase. I designed this site as part of Bright Studios.

The website design, hence, had to function like a tool, not a content or marketing page. The primary surface — the Career Path page — is where a first-generation professional or newcomer on a work permit should be able to land and immediately understand what step they're on, what comes next, and what's actually hard about it. Not a clean overview. A usable map.

The Career Path page is where the product either earns belief or loses it. A newcomer who's already paid for the wrong thing once lands here and needs to know immediately: this is different, this is for me, this is what I do next. If that doesn't land in the first minute, nothing else matters.

The six-step path component became the central design object — because the path itself is the product differentiator. Job boards can't show you this. Course sites don't know your step. The component makes the methodology visible, and that's what builds trust faster than any copy on the page.

Each step is structured around three tabs — what it is, what's hard about it, what to do — because the friction is the point. Most platforms sanitise the process. This one names it.

The visual direction keeps that same honesty: type-led, restrained, a single warm accent. The people using this product have been oversold before — by agents, by course sites, by job boards that list roles they can't qualify for yet. The design doesn't try to compensate for that with polish. It earns trust the same way the product does: by being direct about what's in front of you.

Working on something complex, ambitious, or hard to get right?
I’d love to hear what you’re building.

Most of my work sits with teams solving complex problems — where design needs to hold up as products evolve and companies scale. If that’s what you’re working on, we’ll likely get along well.

Im Disha Shah, a Brand and Experience Designer working with consultancies, AI-driven and deep-tech startups including founders backed by YC, Accel, Bain Capital, and more.

Ive worked closely with engineering and business teams across 15+ countries, spanning startups, design studios, global consultancies, and institutions such as Deloitte, United Nations, Larsen & Toubro Group, and Tata Group.

You can find me on X (Twitter) where I share my daily thoughts and my visual experiments.

Im Disha Shah, a Brand and Experience Designer working with consultancies, AI-driven and deep-tech startups including founders backed by YC, Accel, Bain Capital, and more.

Ive worked closely with engineering and business teams across 15+ countries, spanning startups, design studios, global consultancies, and institutions such as Deloitte, United Nations, Larsen & Toubro Group, and Tata Group.

You can find me on X (Twitter) where I share my daily thoughts and my visual experiments.

Im Disha Shah, a Brand and Experience Designer working with consultancies, AI-driven and deep-tech startups including founders backed by YC, Accel, Bain Capital, and more.

Ive worked closely with engineering and business teams across 15+ countries, spanning startups, design studios, global consultancies, and institutions such as Deloitte, United Nations, Larsen & Toubro Group, and Tata Group.

You can find me on X (Twitter) where I share my daily thoughts and my visual experiments.

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