How UX strategy unlocks billion-dollar opportunities

Deposits Growth

Completion Rate Growth

Before

$1.1B

43%

$0

After

$3.5B

80%

$40M


8 Months

UX Designer (Hugo)
Product Owner
Web Engineer
Mobile App Engineer

Monthly External Funding

Length

Team

By distilling the CD opening process down to its purest form,

like the final drop of olive oil,

I raised the completion rate from 43% to 80%.

Design Strategy

Subtraction. Transparent.

$$

$1.5 Billion

Seamless CD opening that grows deposit

The Pitch: Let’s Open Multiple CDs at Once!

But, Should We?

The low average CDs per holder indicated opening multiple Certificates at once isn’t a true need.

The online CD purchase isn’t user friendly. I had to leave the sign-up just to find CD rates.
— Voice of Customer

Members were continuously complaining that the opening flow forced them to leave the process to look up information.

The online CD purchase isn’t user friendly. I had to leave the sign-up just to find CD rates.
— Voice of Customer

NO.

Let’s redesign the CD opening process.

Scale up for greater impact

Explore products


CD opening


CD renewal

My Strategy: Relentless Focus on What Moves the Needle

At every stage, I kept my eye on one thing: aligning design with the bank’s true business goal—growing deposits. Instead of chasing features for their own sake, every design choice was backed by data, user feedback, and a clear connection to real impact. By focusing on what mattered most to users and the business, I helped turn a simple redesign into a catalyst for measurable growth.

Extened the impact to mobile channel

Covered the missing 35% of users.

App 35% Web 65%

Alliant’s first product opening feature on mobile

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