Final Mockups

Empowering users

Offering an accessible mobile-first experience where they easily find answers. An inviting homepage that’s accessible and has an advanced search feature helping users find information immediately.  

Improved User Interface

Mobile-first design making it easy to find desired information.

Easy access to important information

Reduce  long wait times and decrease call volume by giving users instant answers to commonly asked questions.

Design and Iteration

User Interface – mobile headers

After a few rounds of sketches these were the top four chosen. Through anonymous voting option D was the most popular. 

User Interface – mobile menu

Surveys showed  that users could only find part of the information they were looking for. There was also comments about the mobile menu being hard to navigate. These show the top 3 favorites.

A/B Testing – mobile menu

To help narrow the options for menu design, these two prototypes were tested on 9 users.  Option A was the clear favorite over Option B. (click on respective link for prototype).

Initial sketches – desktop home

To simplify the home page layout and make it easier for users to find information and answers to their questions. The prominence of search function played a major role in the decision making.

Initial sketches – desktop flow

Once the layout for the home page was decided, I created a few flows to see explore how to minimize clicks.

Information Architecture

Sitemap

The goal was to  distill complex information architecture into a simple  user-friendly solution. The challenge was to consolidate over 100 pages of information into more concise and mobile friendly format.  Starting first with content strategy and establishing  four major categories; Account, Loans, Services and About the Credit Union. Secondary objective was to allow users to execute following actions from any page; log-in to their digital banking, search , locate branches/ATMs, make an appointment and being able to contact us.

Wireframes

Home page

Accessible clean  layout empowering the user. The design is driven by data of most popular pages visited, heatmap to know here users click the most and  event click tracking. Based on human centered design, it’s  mobile-first but not mobile only. Users can  log in to their digital banking and  quickly find information they need.

Inside page

This  template is designed for the majority of inside pages including loans and accounts. The main features are, section for promotions,  highlighting of the service/ product and  answers to  most frequently questions asked.

Contact page

Designed to  answer most commonly asked questions such as routing number and encourage users to submit queries via  email form.  Implement SaaS tools to improve member experience to provide  answers  based on previous user queries. 

Landing page

This page is predominantly  designed to introduce users to new product and/or services. It will be used as a landing page for external advertising including social media and organic search.

Quantitative Research - Survey

Frequency of Visits

Majority of users visit the LAFCU website on a daily basis, about one quarter visit it weekly.

Finding information on a desktop device

When surveyed majority of users say they find only part of what they’re looking for.

Finding information on a mobile device

When surveyed an overwhelming majority of users say they don’t find what they’re looking for.

Compared to other companies with similar services

All of the users surveyed feel the LAFCU website is average or below average when compared to other companies offering similar products or services.

Purpose of Visit

Most of the visitors visit lafcu’s website to  log into their account. Of those who do not, the main purpose is it to get contact information.

When asked which device they use most when online

Majority of users browse the web on their mobile devices.

Current Site

The Competition

Direct and Indirect Competitors

As technology is driving more self-service options (in- branch and online), both direct (other credit unions) and indirect competitors (banks) must be a considered for the overall digital user experience and customer interaction. 

The User

Qualitative research was conducted to gain insights and empathize with our user. Key insights were the difficulty of finding information and the uncertainly of what the process looked like before applying. This left them feeling apprehensive about applying online so they chose to call for help. They were placed on a long hold and after 10 minutes of waiting they hung up.

User Journey

This user journey  eliminates the unnecessary ui patterns in the current experience. It helps identify the different ways we can enable the user to achieve their goal as quickly and easily as possible.