MBA + M.S. Human Factors in Info Design
eSign project
Create a replacement system for an outdated technology that enables bankers to electronically obtain signatures from clients.
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Conducted research studies at different stages of the product development lifecycle for the eSign project.
Project Timeline
Product team decides to build the replacement system in house instead of using a vendor solution
Discovery interviews
Used discovery interviews to understand the context of bankers working with clients during document signing processes. Uncovering the attitudes, aptitudes, and motives of the banker enable the Product and Design teams to create an intuitive User Interface, that minimizes time spent by the bankers and clients, so they can move on to other tasks more quickly.
Start of design work
Contextual inquiry
Conducted a field study to gather insights into the how the application the team is focusing on fits into the overall context of a banker's day.
Branch Visits
Design team creates designs for UI of the system with input from research and accessibility
Design team creates prototypes to be used in UX Research study
Prototype testing
Conducted prototype testing to gather feedback from real end-users about the design for the new system. This feedback enables the team to make favorable changes to the design. Changes made during this phase reduce overall project cost, they are less costly because development has not started yet.
Design team finalizes designs and creates annotations
Design team hands off annotated designs to developers
Product and Agile teams create user stories to build out the designs
Development team creates the user interface based on the designs
Live site usability testing
Coded solutions do not always match the designs that were handed off to the developers. Conducting a usability test on the built site with end users, enables us to have another chance to catch issues with the before the system is rolled out to a larger audience.
Research meets with Design, Product, Development, and agile teams to make recommendations about changes to the user interface based on the usability test
Experience Survey
Created a baseline metric composed of System Usability Scale (SUS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores.
Research meets with Design, Product, Development, and agile teams to share results and make recommendations about issues to watch after release of new system