Quick actions make banking easy

Summary.
I led content development for an AI/ML feature that creates personalized shortcuts for the user’s common tasks.

Role.
Content strategy
UX writing

Skills.
Research
Accessibility
Design principles

Team.
Senior Content Designer (me!)
Product Designer
Lead Product Manager
Product Leadership

Powered by a patented machine learning algorithm, we observe the user’s past transactions. Using insights from this data, we present personalized shortcuts so the user can do their frequently repeated transactions faster.

It was important to describe the feature, but not slap on “powered by AI”. Instead, I framed it as an analysis of behaviours, focusing on the benefit to the user and not the underlying technology. The design principles I developed were to provide enough information to be transparent (but not creepy), and to give the user enough control over the actions so it felt helpful but not intrusive.

App screen with shortcuts into banking tasks like sending a transfer and paying a bill

Default state.
Users are shown cards featuring their most frequent transactions, with just enough context to pick an action.

When a user selects a shortcut, they're taken to the task screen pre-filled with info from their last time doing this task

Taking an action.
The user selects a card, and the app pre-fills the screen with details from the last time they did this transaction.

The user hides the quick actions carousel, this screen informs them how to display it again.

Hide actions.
The user can hide the cards if they prefer, and can restore them using a CTA at the bottom of the screen.