The Communication Studio LLC
Equity Research Portal
Lead UI Design (5 mo.)

The IT department at this large international bank needed help - and fast. They wanted to integrate incompatible corporate sites that had been published by their international offices into a client-facing portal, while also providing cross-selling of their services, as well as substantial new functionality. Their previous high-priced consulting agency had left them with a smaller design budget and little else.

Homepage
Today's Happenings
Detailed Analyst info
Analyst page
In-depth search tool
Search page
Advanced search popup
Search drilldown

Equity Research Site Re-Design

The client did not have a solid design plan in place, so "scope creep" was a real issue. I worked with the business unit to nail down a coherent design plan and provided DB's unseasoned project team with guidance on effective process and documentation. My mandate:

  • Design a customer-centric service
  • Tie together a diverse range of sites with fluid navigation and an easily-understandable structure
  • Emphasize the cross-selling of Deutsche Bank's financial services
  • Implement consistent "look & feel" standards and behaviors

Company-centric view
(Focus on cross-selling among enterprise services)

I successfully delivered the global redesign of Deutsche Bank's complex Equity Research site to high standards and on schedule.

 

Directory Management page
Subscription Overview
Attribute selection
Select Regions
List management tool
Add Contact popup

Preferences Manager Workflow

DB management was so impressed with my work that they asked me to stay beyond my original contract in order to help out the Preferences Management tool design team that was still struggling.

I worked closely with the corporate business-side client to deliver attractive, easy-to-understand screens that appropriately reflected the company's fulfillment workflow.

I provided design guidelines to the team and personally redesigned a suite of Deutsche Bank's most mission-critical pages, focusing on:

Subscriptions Management
Client, Contact & Company Profiles
Directory, Search and Records Management tools

Skills & Techniques : Dreamweaver, portal environment, "application-oriented" and "publishing" site, CSS, templates, Fireworks, navigation, documentation, process, branding & stylesheet

My documentation skills were especially important on this project because DB had booked their coding development off-site to a programming group in India.