Manulife
Streamlined the user interface for the Plan Administrator and Disability portal to enhance user experience.
Responsibilities
Work with Product, Marketing, Business and IS teams to obtain and understand business, functional and technical requirements.
- Document detailed user experience specifications.
- Design user interfaces by applying the fundamental principles of user experience design, research experience, industry best practices and balancing those against system constraints and business objectives.
- Create and revise user flows, sitemaps and low and high-fidelity wireframes based on specifications, goals, needs and limitations.
- Develop rapid interactional UX prototypes; verify design assumptions through concept and usability testing.
- Lead design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and approval on designs and documentation.
- Create final visual mockups against wireframes, in keeping with the company brand standards, UX guidelines and accessibility legislation (AODA/WCAG).
- Provide final design assets and documentation to the development team; liaise to ensure final output matches UX specifications and visual design.
Contributions
- Collaborated with Product, Marketing, Business, and IS teams to gather comprehensive requirements for Manulife’s Plan Administrator Site, translating into strategic UX redesigns that align with business objectives to enhance overall usability.
- Simplified the user journey by streamlining navigation flows, reducing steps to key destinations, and restructuring content hierarchy for improved access and user engagement.
- Coordinated and led UX design reviews, ensuring project alignment with business goals while adhering to Manulife’s brand standards and accessibility requirements (AODA/WCAG).
- Developed clickable prototypes for usability testing on UserTesting.com and leveraged Google Analytics data to gather both qualitative and quantitative feedback, driving data-informed iterative improvements to enhance user experience and interface functionality for Manulife's Plan Administrator Site and Disability Portal.