Experience Designer at John Hancock Insurance

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My Team

Human Centered Design for Life Insurance & Long-term Care services.

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My Role

User Research & Discovery
Experience Strategy & UX Roadmaps
Design, Prototyping, Testing & Facilitating Stakeholder Workshops

At the company

June 2021 - Present

What I’ve been working on

    • Facilitated co-design sessions with stakeholders to establish a baseline customer journey and service blueprint, orchestrating front-end experiences across channels and platforms through service design principles.

    • Initiated a comprehensive discovery process, including competitive analysis and persona development, to understand customer motivations and behaviors, guiding subsequent user research plans.

    • Supported product owners in defining requirements and guidelines for customer experience with a human-centered design focus, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market insights.

    • Collaborated with program managers and leaders to strategize the approach for the discovery and definition phase of the MVP launch, leading workshops and fostering stakeholder relationships to gather feedback and input, while integrating customer research into the roadmap for a holistic approach to customer-centric planning.

    • Spearheaded the creation of the "Multi-life customer experience journey map" in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment on process, vision, and user experience, and fostering buy-in across value streams.

    • Drove iterative improvements to the design of the customer experience by identifying user pain points and opportunities for enhancement, utilizing insights from research, business priorities, and value stream objectives.

    • Played a pivotal role in early digital experience development by prototyping concepts and visualizing a "blue star" prototype for the Multi-life eApp, facilitating internal discussions and iterations.

    • Demonstrated leadership in human-centered design by conducting discovery sessions, presenting prototypes, and championing customer needs, fostering collaborative decision-making and alignment with strategic objectives.

    • Led discovery for redesign of “Caregiver App” for long-term care customers to submit and track claims digitally.

    • Balanced business requirements with customer needs to inform overall strategy and insights for rethinking app’s core functionality and increasing customer usage/ adoption.

    • Aligned stakeholders with user research findings, facilitated ideation workshop to brainstorm solutions and validated conceptual designs with user testing in partnership with research team.

    • Partnered with Product Manager to prioritize design concepts and “quick wins” (low effort-high impact feature improvements that can be executed incrementally in the app).

    • Partnered closely with researchers to conduct user interviews, identify pain points and strategize solutions with product team to enhance life insurance e-applications that led to a +5 NPS-score improvement in 2022.

    • Partnered with Lead experience designer and Voice of Customer team to storyboard and map customer onboarding experiences and support discovery efforts to propose experience strategy.

    • Spear-headed organization-wide initiative to visualize end-to-end customer experience by storyboarding and service mapping to analyze gaps and pain points.

    • The document continues to evolve and educate teams, while directly influencing product strategy and prioritization by Executive Leadership.

    • Contributing and adapting to HCD team needs to help with various projects and internal initiatives, while proactively learning new skills to succeed.

Encouragement from co-workers & leaders

  • Getting the chance to work with Ipsita on the LTC Independent Caregiver App redesign these past months has been a gift and a pleasure. From brilliant ideas to dreamy collaboration to always-on-top-of-it deliverables, it's a chance to work with one of our most talented designers and a promising rising design leader. Thank you for all you bring, Ipsita!

    Suzanne Ackerman, Lead Experience Designer and Strategist at John Hancock

  • Excellent job helping us pull together storyboards for our Policy Delivery processes. This method of sharing the journey will be so powerful. Thank you !!! Thank you for doing such a great job preparing and presenting the BUY User Journey for the CDO. It was clear to me you were very prepared and OWN IT!

    Andrea Brown, AVP Value Stream Owner - Life Insurance "Buy" Experiences at John Hancock

  • Ipsita, you have been so great to work with! You have shown nothing but dedication and passion towards the work you do and it was so great to be partnered with you on so many different projects. Every interaction with you has been great from the start and I know you will continue to do great things within John Hancock and HCD. Thank you again for all the help and knowledge you have provided throughout all of our collaboration.

    Scott O’Brien, Associate Experience Designer at John Hancock

  • Nicely done, team, on delivering the Customer Journey Wall this year. We’ll be able to trace our Continuous Delivery achievements back to this foundational guide for years to come. Thank you for keeping the business moving forward and ensuring we prioritize what matters most. You’ve shown what it means to Think Big and Get It Done Together. Keep up the great work! Marianne

    Marianne Harrison, President & CEO at John Hancock

  • Ipsita! Getting to collab with you has been a high point for me this year. You provide such value to this company!

    Richard LaDue, Product Owner (Long-term Care) at John Hancock

  • Ipsita, you have made so many important contributions to the team and have been instrumental in evolving the way we look at our customer experiences. I can't wait to see what's next for you!

    Breanne M. Diorio, HCD Lead Experience Strategist at John Hancock

  • The commitment, thought-leadership and constant 'Customer Obsession' that you all have shown throughout the CX Customer Journey work is simply OUTSTANDING. Someone who attended the presentation yesterday summed it up perfectly; 'Chris your team stole the show!'. I can't thank you all enough for the time, effort and thinking that you all have contributed to this work - THANK YOU! Regards Chris

    Chris England, VP Head of CX Strategy & Planning at John Hancock

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