KEVIN KEIPER  Staff Product Design Professional

Principal Design System Architect

Brightplan
March 30, 2016
March 30, 2018

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Goal-based investors lacked a financial management incentive to invest in high value investment opportunities to easily establish, fund, and monitor goal progress.

GOALS

  • Design and deploy a responsive browser based and native app to enable investment account funding and management.
  • Work with senior stakeholders to discuss current opportunities and pragmatic solutions.
  • Grow assets under management to $250mm in first year and subsequently at 20% annually.

DESIGN RESEARCH

  • I Led Product team first through personae, journey maps, wireframe, early product sessions.
  • Deployed an optimized component library in line with brand and engineering best practices.
  • Created high level journey map from preliminary discovery.
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I led senior product members (pictured) through problem space discovery and opportunity.

DESIGN PROCESS

  • After preliminary discovery, I began of component system and lo fidelity prototypes.
  • Met regularly with CEO and senior staff to evaluate design progress and future products.
  • Created high level preliminary journey map to define basic user flows, conversion events.
I authored high level journey map and all RWD designs in Figma.

SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES

  • Orchestrated creation of all experience blueprint designs and engineering specifications for pioneering fintech startup, contributing to 30% efficiency gains and 10% investment risk reduction.
  • Drafted high-level customer conversion maps for a 17% increase in new accounts, developed UX design operations and component library reducing UX engineering time by 20%.
SKILLS
  • Results-based Mentoring
  • Relationship Journey Maps
  • Design Thinking
  • Design Strategy + Systems
  • Opportunity Definition
  • Figma
  • UX Automation Strategies
  • Consensual Leadership
  • JIRA Agile Methods
EDUCATION
  • UC Berkeley | BA Humanities
  • THINKFUL | Front End Certificate