In-house at Westpac Group
CX & Service Designer
Unfortunately, details of my time at Westpac Group cannot be included in this case study as they may have a material impact on the Bank and its business.
The Westpac Group is actively undertaking multiple projects that span various stages of the customer and banker lifecycles. These initiatives include exploring the holistic future-state banking experience for different customer types and across multiple touchpoints, as well as aligning with industry regulation changes for supplier governance.
I assisted lead/senior designers by:
- Conducting desktop research
- Conducting competitor analysis
- Drafting scope, research plans and initial discussion guides
- Conducting user and stakeholder interviews
- Synthesising data and developing initial findings and insights
- Planning and executing co-design workshops
- Generating reports, recommendations and presenting findings back to stakeholders
The Process of Design Squiggle by Damien Newman, thedesignsquiggle.com
Project plan
Desktop research
Competitor analysis
Customer feedback and business analysis
Research plan
Discussion guide
User interviews
Surveys
Refine stakeholder mapping
SME & stakeholder interviews
SME & stakeholder workshops
8Ps mapping
(People, products, places, processes, platforms, performances, policies, purpose)
Initial current-state experience mapping
Initial current-state service blueprint
Affinity mapping
Themes & insight development
Empathy maps
Personas
Refine current state experience map
Refine current-state service blueprint
Opportunity alignment workshops
Ideation workshops
Concept cards
Feature analysis
Prioritisation frameworks
Initial sketches
Lofi wireframes
Prototyping
Usability testing
User feedback
Iterations
Final assets:
Customer Journey Map
Service blueprint
Research & tiered recommendations report
Presentations to stakeholders
By validating concepts and mapping out the future-state app experience for various customer types, the findings went on to inform the future-strategy of the banking app and its features.
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