American Express

Integrated Marketing Solutions

Digital Acquisition & Early Engagement had engaged Cognizant to provide digital design services for their Card Application, Acquisition Enablement & Acceleration product designs.

The scope of work included the creative services - UX design, Visual Design and Responsive Web Development across 21 International Markets.

Business results and client benefits included a cumulative uplift of ~12% in the application completion rate for existing customers.

Cognizant Digital has been instrumental in 1% growth of Amex's total International Business revenue base of $125 Billion for 2015.

Danielle Crop, VP Amex

Challenges

  • Not optimal from a mobile use.
  • Unclear application process.
  • Long formidable application form.
  • Hard to access call to actions.

UI Uplift - Change Drivers

  • Multi-channel digital strategy.
  • The new card application journey recognizes the customer relationship and delivers a simpler more personalized experience to drive organic growth.
  • Happy path to majority of users.
  • Clear application process flow.
  • Instant decisioning and approval.
  • Improved application usability. (a cumulative uplift of ~12% in the application completion rate for existing customers.
  • UI consistent with web standards and best practices to achieve design consistency across all markets.

Process Improvements

  • Integrating a collaborative design process in an Agile framework.
  • Created a Design track in Jira.
  • Proposed as an ecosystem where Business, Design and Tech can interact as inseparable working flow components; share design work in progress and get business alignment.
  • Created comprehensive design for the next iteration; future cycles remain more loosely designed (high level concepts).
    • Created design backlog and aligned with Product Owners for better design delivery planning.
    • Weekly design planning meetings to keep track and prioritize requests that are coming in.
    • Design team’s involvement in ‘Show and Tell’ for alignment with design team.