Redefining the
CD lifecycle

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

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.

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

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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specializes in Financial UX