At a Glance
When this leading business financing lender from the Tri-state area wanted to eliminate their experience gaps, TVS Next partnered with them to reimagine user experiences and helped the lender overcome the challenges of their legacy application.
Services
Experiences
- Consulting
- Digital Experience
- Service Design
Industry
Financial Services
Problem
This leading lender had a skilled team of underwriters and accountants and a unique partner ecosystem that provided competent offers to their target customers. But they couldn’t achieve speed and scale.
The lending application’s user experience was laborious, frustrating, and slow. Issues in the legacy application led to frequent service disruption for employees and partners. The offline and online touchpoints were fragmented, causing customer interests, retention, and opportunities to be untraceable.
The lack of clean endpoints in the UI and API prevented the plugging in of new partners or software to assist underwriters and accountants.
The lender chose TVS Next as the partner to modernize their experience and accelerate their growth.
Experience Design Strategy
The TVS Next team spent around 2000 hours in accelerated discovery workshops to understand business drivers and analyze the as-is system state. Our team performed design thinking, problem statement framing, process and UX audit, KPI analysis, user interviews, persona mapping, and competitor research.
Through this comprehensive exercise, we arrived at a list of business, user experience, technology, and ROI goals to achieve through modernization.
Our team created extensive user personas and mapped them to journeys within the application. We then reimagined the journeys and screens to improve ease of use and increase satisfaction for every user.
We leveraged experience design, customer journey design, wireframe sketches, prototyping, and affinity mapping to determine the design strategy and roadmap.
Transformation Journey
The TVS Next team worked on the lender’s application module by module based on priority. We adopted a DesignOps Sprint approach and worked on three aspects in every module:
Business: User Story Backlogs
From the business aspect, we gathered requirements, analyzed different scenarios and contexts, and segmented the user stories. We then documented these user stories and reviewed them with the lender.
Technical: Application and Data
From the technical standpoint, we mapped the modules to microservices, transformed data storage and processing, created role-based access controls, and re-engineered the front end.
Design: Design Story
We mapped the user stories to design stories for the design transformation and zeroed in on the UX pain points. We then built the customer journey, features, definitions, and behaviors.
Every module focused on enhancing customer experience, engagement, acquisition, retention, and innovation.
Business Outcomes
35% Increased Deals
Seamless partner integrations and software integrations for the underwriters and accountants have increased deal approvals.
3X Customer Acquisition
Interconnected touchpoints have introduced advanced capabilities and increased customer acquisition and retention threefold.
Elevated User Experiences
Innovative design and a collaborative platform enhanced the experience and increased satisfaction of employees, partners, and customers.
