Background, Research, Personas & Screens

BusinessIQ is an application that allows companies to pull credit reports on other companies that they want to do business with.

Background

BusinessIQ was an 8 year old application that needed an updated user interface. The goal was to update not just the look and feel of the application—but to also migrate the front-end code over to Angular, and improve the overall user experiance.

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Research

I traveled across the U.S. visiting Experian's clients, both big and small, to discover why they use BIQ to inform me on design decisions I should make for the overall redesign. I had the opportunity to build empathy by sitting in on a Credit Analyst's typical workday, discover compensating behaviors, and demo designs to gauge interest and usability.

Primary Personas

Credit Analyst

"I want to write a policy as quickly and accurately as possible."

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Credit Manager

"Make my analysts write quality policies faster."

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VP of Risk Management

"Innovation needs to be managed like anything else - acccountable and measurable."

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Design System

In conjunction with Google Material, we coordinated with other departments within Experian and created a design system we call EDS. It contains requirements on commonly used components, design principles and an accessibility guide.

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