Financial Services & Insurance Provider

Problem Statement

The existing document builder was built on legacy architecture and had grown unwieldy over time. Users were navigating a multi-step process riddled with redundancies, unclear states, and no consistent design language.

New employees struggled to complete basic tasks without extensive training, while experienced users had developed workarounds that couldn't be scaled or documented.

Overview

Reviewed the existing process end-to-end and identified redundancies and unnecessary complexity.

Catalogued all current UI components and states to understand the scope of the design debt.

Identified two primary user groups: document creators and document approvers, each with distinct needs and workflows.

Research

Led a whiteboarding session to brainstorm potential workflows using affinity mapping.

Interviewed users across experience levels to surface pain points and validate assumptions about the current process.

Collaborated with engineering to understand technical constraints that would shape the solution.

Synthesis

Visualized the proposed user journey with a clean wireframe modeled on a git-style branching process.

Mapped the new workflow against existing user mental models to minimize retraining burden.

Identified a set of reusable component patterns that could support the new workflow and scale to future features.

Outcome

Delivered low-fidelity prototypes that were adapted into clickable screens following stakeholder feedback.

Developed a tokenized Figma component library ready for implementation.

Handoff documentation enabled engineering to begin development without additional design support.