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A two-pronged experiment that lifted new account openings 15%.

+15%

New account openings

+75%

Account conversions

01

Executive summary

A two-pronged, innovative design experiment focused on streamlining new account creation, resulting in a 15% lift in new account openings and a 75% increase in account conversions.

02

Business context

Customers were getting caught between our employee workplace website and our retail website, unsure what each site offered and where to go. Our goal was to clarify those experiences and show customers new ways to grow their wealth.

03

My role & scope

  • — Design executive sponsor; set the experience strategy
  • — Spanned 2 enterprise product divisions
  • — Partnered with Product, Marketing, Research, Content Strategy and Engineering

04

Key decisions

Run two bets in parallel

Tested two complementary hypotheses at once to learn faster and de-risk the investment.

Let data pick the winner

Committed upfront to the metrics that would decide what shipped.

05

Approach

  1. 1. Identified friction points in account creation
  2. 2. Designed and ran a two-pronged experiment
  3. 3. Scaled the winning patterns

06

Results

  • ✓ 15% lift in new account openings
  • ✓ 75% increase in account conversions

07

Selected visuals

Welcome experience offering workplace benefits access alongside saving, investing and new account options
Welcome experience · Workplace benefits and investing paths
All accounts summary with workplace account management, investing options and a 401(k) plus brokerage offer
Account summary · Investing opportunities alongside workplace accounts

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