CLIENT
Deutsche Bank

Project Type
FSV to Full Production

BRIEF
Help the client to articulate a vision for managing risk and finance information across the bank. Design a series of applications that enable the entire risk department to understand the current risk of the bank

DETAILS
This project was one of my first in financial services.

I learned so much about process, workflows and client management from this one engagement!

We had an ever expanding team and extremely challenging stakeholders.

The team was hugely talented but lacked structure. From a UX perspective we weren’t capturing the core requirements appropriately and therefore lacked the ability to break down the core task / goals the users intended.

From a UI perspective, we had no style guide or UI his so each time anew designer came aboard, they would change styles slightly so gradually it looked like we have 5 buttons, 4 input types, 6 variants of the same icon etc…

So, we managed to take stock and start an audit process to consolidate styles to ease future design and dev work. Of course this was the wrong way around but it was a huge learning curve for all involved!

TAKEAWAYS
• More structure& planning early on
• Paper prototyping world a treat
• UI Kits / Design system required early on for design team and devs
• Weekly show & tells too short, should have been at least every two weeks to allow for better understanding of the tasks