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.
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.