Discover Bank

As one of the most well-known financial institutions, Discover Bank offers reward credit cards, online banking, home equity loans, student loans, and personal loans.

Role Senior UI Designer · UX Writer

Partners  Client · Creative Director · Information Architect · Content Designer · Engineering

Deliverables High-fidelity · Design System

Tools Illustrator · Photoshop

Timeframe 6 months

Company Fusebox

The Problem

Customers engage with multiple touchpoints but often have different experiences. Lacking a unified digital strategy, various teams across the bank onboarded several agencies that produced landing pages, microsites, and email templates with a disparate look and feel.

"How can we compete with other financial institutions in a growing digital market?"
Opportunity
  • Digital Brand Cohesion: Drive customer trust and recognition by unifying Discover’s digital brand and eliminating inconsistent digital styles.
  • Establish a Design System: Accelerate development and deliver a seamless user experience by creating a design system of reusable user interface components used across all digital touchpoints.
  • Responsive Experience: Increase engagement and conversion by improving user experience through responsive design and optimized information architecture that prioritizes relevant content and minimizes clicks.

Process

Research & Discovery

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Define

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Ideate

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Branding

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UX Design

Overall UX efforts prioritized information architecture and content finding through reducing clicks to find content, adding site search, and other content components to shorten page length.

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Visual Design

Visual design efforts established a standardized component library, improved the visual experience with large imagery, and enabled mobile users with responsive design.

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Testing

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Impact

Outcomes
  • Digital Brand Consistency: Unified visual styles and interaction patterns across digital touchpoints to create a cohesive, recognizable brand, increasing trust and credibility.
  • Scalable Design System: Implemented a reusable UI component library for web and mobile, increasing efficiency and elevating product quality.
  • Improved Findability: Enhanced responsive layouts and information architecture to surface key content and streamline user flows across devices.
  • Reduced Customer Support Dependency: Streamlined navigation and content, decreasing inbound support calls by 20%, cutting costs and frustration.
  • Mobile Traffic Growth: Improved mobile usability and performance, resulting in a 60% actual increase in mobile traffic.
  • Increased Content Engagement: Improved landing page structure and content to boost average time on page from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, demonstrating greater engagement and content impact.