From purple gradients to the relentless hype around AI, the HR and talent management SaaS market has become saturated with futuristic promises, to the point of forgetting the most important one: human relationships should remain at the centre of everything. Elevo’s founder, however, always kept this conviction as a guiding principle. One client even reported that Elevo had given back a considerable amount of time to real conversations between HR teams, managers and employees, to the extent that they almost forgot they were dealing with a product at all. There lay Elevo’s singularity: “A talent management platform where technology steps aside for conversation.”
Our role was to build an identity capable of establishing Elevo as a mature, reliable and established company, while affirming its position as a new-generation talent suite. A brand that feels more structured, more coherent and more recognisable. The strategy developed alongside the Bruno teams crystallised around a simple idea: turning Elevo into a professional safe place. Elevo had to become a window onto a more human world of work, for the benefit of everyone.
The artistic direction deliberately moves away from dominant tech aesthetics in favour of a more timeless system. Interfaces are spacious, compositions structured yet warm, and fresh colours are used sparingly as navigational cues. Haffer was chosen for its softness and humanist stability, while the illustrations, inspired by the work of Sempé, introduce breathing space and closeness into a category often overwhelmed by technicality. Every element until UX and web design was conceived to create the conditions for a calm and legible experience. Technology simply focuses on doing its job.