Platform · Digital Enterprise
Six experience themes that unified the enterprise — and cut drop-off from 54% to 5%.
54%→5%
Customer drop-off
5M+
Customers impacted
6
Enterprise experience themes
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Executive summary
A collaborative, design-thinking initiative that identified six core experience themes — Notifications, Education, Support, Sequencing, Planning and Transactions — establishing a foundation for consistent, improved experiences across the enterprise.
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Business context
The digital workflows for accepting stock awards and managing beneficiaries after a loss were suffering high rates of customer drop-off and attrition, caused by fragmented experiences and competing solutions across the enterprise.
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My role & scope
- — VP of UX Design, 2022–2023 — led the initiative end to end
- — Coordinated a team of 20+ designers, content strategists and researchers
- — Facilitated a design-thinking workshop with 40+ product partners across engineering, product management and customer service
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Key decisions
Solve the system, not the screen
Used systems thinking to pinpoint the shared underlying issues across seemingly unrelated experiences — like accepting stock awards and beneficiary management — and built unified solutions that fixed multiple workflows at once.
Bring 40+ partners into the room
Ran the work as a cross-functional design-thinking workshop with engineering, product management and customer service, so adoption was built in from the start.
Sequence the rollout
Started implementation with two themes — Sequencing and Support — where customer pain was highest, proving value before scaling the rest.
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Approach
- 1. Mapped the customer journey across the entire enterprise with research teams, surfacing unmet customer needs and enterprise-level pain points
- 2. Convened a design-thinking workshop with 40+ product partners from engineering, product management and customer service
- 3. Defined six key Experience Themes — Notifications, Education, Support, Sequencing, Planning and Transactions — that solved for the two focus journeys and a host of other fragmented experiences
- 4. Implemented modular, reusable design patterns across multiple product lines, beginning with Sequencing (a clear to-do / in-progress / done model with timeframes) and Support (omnichannel help that knows the customer's story and is ready when they are)
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Results
- ✓ Reduced customer drop-off from 54% to 5%
- ✓ Improved retention, satisfaction and overall business results for over 5 million customers
- ✓ Enabled personalized experiences powered by data and machine learning, with progress tracking and tailored recommendations
- ✓ Launched a new visual design system with improved messaging that reduced confusion
- ✓ Inspired multiple enterprise-wide initiatives adopting reusable design patterns, improving customer retention
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Selected visuals
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