Overdrafts Design

overdraft image

Project Overview:

Improve the visibility of the overdraft account

Company:

BMO Harris Bank

Role:

  • Ran adapted design sprint
  • Contributed design ideation during design sprint
  • Built prototype
  • Created testing script
  • Ran test on usertesting.com
  • Compiled research
  • Presented results
  • Built pixel perfect wireframes

Project Summary:

Increase the visualization and notifications of the overdraft account, and when overdraft protection takes place. Notify the user when an overdraft protection transaction takes place. Provide quicker and easier access to view the overdraft account information and transactions.

The Challenge:

Checking account holders with an overdraft line of credit required better transparency into their accounts. Previous versions showed the account information including interest charged on the account. Because interest would be charged the overdraft account and transactions needed to be more accessible.

The Solution:

The broader team began with an adapted design sprint. We first aligned on the problem and on the requirements for the project. We spent several sessions brainstorming and completing ideation sketches of different mobile solutions to the problem. We voted on which ones we liked the best and decided to build a prototype to do some quick testing. After the testing we concluded that we had a viable solution and built the high fidelity wireframes for development.
Design Sprint Sketches 1 Design Sprint Sketches 2 Design Sprint Sketches 3
Overdraft Invision Prototype
Testing Script(.docx download)
Overdraft Account Summary annotated PDF
Overdraft Account Details annotated PDF

The Results:

After implementation complaints about the lack of transparency regarding the overdraft line of credit accounts subsided to zero.