How Dave supports
it's 10 million users.

Dave is a start-up Unicorn with over 12+ million users. Dave is “Banking for Humans.” For $1-a-month, Dave offers users checking accounts with no minimums or overdraft fees, automated budgeting, cash advances of up to $100, and the ability to build up their credit scores.

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Dave
Customer Success
Workspace

Dave • 2019

Client
Dave Inc.
Industry
Fintech
Project Type
Product Design
Responsabilities
Design
User Testing
Deliverables
UX Design
Design System
Team
Chris W. — PM
Chris S. — Engineering
Kevin H. — Engineering
Daniel C. — QA
Maxim T. — Illustrator
Ian D. — Design

Dave
Customer Success
Workspace

Dave • 2019

Company

Dave has a start-up Unicorn with over 12+ million users. Dave is “Banking for Humans.” For $1-a-month, Dave offers users checking accounts with no minimums or overdraft fees, automated budgeting, cash advances of up to $100, and the ability to build up their credit scores.

Problem

Dave was introducing Dave Banking to all users. This required a unified Customer Support process, flow and workspace which didn’t exist. Many support tickets required 3rd party tools, multiple internal tools and wiki’s to help trouble shoot customer issues. It was common for a Customer Success agent to have more than 10 browser windows open at any given time to assist a end user.

Furthermore, we needed to identify which support tasks could added to the mobile application.

My Role

Product designer tasked with creating a single, unified workspace for Customer Success team members. It was one of those “One ring to rule them all” type situations. The product manager and I interviewed the Customer Success team so we could design a workspace for them. Finally, to support the Customer Success team, engineers, and product managers, it was important to create a design system that could scale.

Results

After 6 months, the Customer Success workspace v1.0 was released. The design system was implemented and the Customer Success workspace was in full use. It was also now possible for product managers and engineers to work though feature tickets without needing every screen to be designed thanks to the new design system. I provided "design reviews" for new features but much of my time would continue by evaluating existing design system paradigms, gathering feedback from Customer Success Agents, and solving new solutions to those pain points.

Challanges

Product designer tasked with creating a single, unified workspace for Customer Success team members. It was one of those “One ring to rule them all” type situations. The product manager and I interviewed the Customer Success team so we could design a workspace for them. Finally, to support the Customer Success team, engineers, and product managers, it was important to create a design system that could scale.

Preview

Due to NDA, there is very little I can share at this time. Here are some features that I explored while at Dave.

Dave web design system

Implementation of the Dave Design System in the Customer Success workspace. Designed to provide clear interactions and high level of usability. Customer Success Design System were inspired to have similar interactions to the Dave mobile app.

Better designed tables

Tables get a bad rap! After user testing, it was discovered a well designed table communicated information more clearly than all other design explored.

Side Nav

Quick navigation provides faster customer support. Clicking an icon jumps to the appropriate section of the page. Navigation icons can be re-organized and the pages content re-organizes to match.

Organize the page by re-organizing the side nav icons
Quick wireframe for communicating with PM and engineering

Modal Designs

Modals show less frequently needed, but more detailed information. This include JSON objects, permission controls, warnings, etc. It was a goal to add a bit of “Dave” delight whenever possible.

Thanks!

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