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Employees use internal web app
Stakeholder interviews
Open card sorts
The context: The internal app at Momnt is used by 200+ employees, and the Loan Information section is one of the most commonly used. As the Product Designer for the internal app, it was clear that an overhaul of this section would allow users to more quickly surface the information needed. Usually, users were on the phone with consumers when accessing this, so ease of use and simplification of information was crucial.
The problem: What information is most important to surface, and how do current users access this?
The solution: Using open card sorts and user interviews, I was able to reorganize and restructure the layout and functionality of the Loan Information section to ensure it was user-friendly. I was also able to bring in more color to help with readability.
Much of this information has been added to this section in individual pieces as needed, so that some of the cards ended up holding quite a lot of information. And, the design made it so that scanning was difficult - there was not much text hierarchy nor varying colors.
12 STAKEHOLDERS:
Throughout this process, I met with various stakeholders (Consumer Support team members and leads, Product Managers, and Risk and Compliance team leads) to better understand how they currently used the Loan Information section and to collaborate on design iterations.
For example, the image below was from a brainstorming session with a Product Manager, in which we attempted to group together different pieces of information that are connected or linked. The purple highlights, for instance, are the details about the loan. This was our attempt to make sense of the current information and how it might be regrouped.
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7 OPEN CARD SORTS
The card sorts listed all the possible categories that could be shown in the Loan Information section, and asked users to categorize as they saw fit (and naming those categories themselves). Below are the results. For example, all 7 people created a category called Loan Details/Information, and all people put Loan Product within that category.
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7/7 Users
created the Loan Details category
5/7 Users
created the Late/Delinquent category
5/7 Users
created the Statuses & Dates category
5/7 Users
created the Payments & Speding category
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After the results of the open card sorts and follow up conversations with users, I created various designs to incorporate the research and get feedback. As I designed, I explored the problem further:
-How might we reorganize the information so that users can find what they need more efficiently?
-How might we add in aesthetic changes to ease navigation?
-How might we simplify the design to decrease clutter?
After receiving feedback on the initial designs and proposed re-categorization, I continued distilling the information into designs and added in some color. Many of these colors were taken from Momnt's color library to ensure consistency, and I also created new colors that fit within the same brightness to make the designs uniform.
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The final design separates more information into cards, and each card has its own colored heading and new category titles based on the open card sort results and brainstorming sessions.
Some features to highlight:
-The Loan Charges & Balances section shows the information as a breakdown, so that users can better understand how the amounts relate to each other.
-Some information will only display if applicable, so that the information shown is as clutter-free as possible.
-This final design also shows a language preference and a glossary toggle, which are two additional features I designed after this project.
