Banking UX and UI Projects

Garanti BBVA・Mobile & Web app・2017-2018
Overview
Garanti BBVA is one of Turkey’s leading banks with a large digital customer base on mobile and web. This work focused on improving the usability of important journeys and introducing new features that supported everyday customer needs.
Company
Garanti BBVA Turkey HQ
My Role
Digital experience and design supervisor
Research · Workshop planning and facilitation · Project management · Wireframe design · UI design · Visual design

Challenge

The project involved enhancing several important journeys within the mobile and web channels to better align with users’ expectations. Each feature such as money transfers, card management, application tracking, and transaction insights required clearer flow structures and more accessible entry points. The challenge was to refine these journeys to improve clarity and navigation while staying consistent with the existing design system and established product patterns.
Money transfers redesign MVP
In Turkey, several traditional banking terms can be difficult to differentiate for users. For example, money transfer within the same bank is called havale while a transfer to another bank is called EFT. Insights showed that these distinctions created uncertainty in the information architecture and made it harder for users to select the correct journey.

This work was part of a one year project conducted with Spring Studio. As the MVP, a new money transfers dashboard was designed. The most commonly used transfer types were surfaced on the dashboard through progressive disclosure and recent transactions were highlighted since users typically transfer money to the same recipients. An ability to save recipients as payees was also introduced.
Emergency I can't find my card
A new emergency feature was designed for customers who could not locate their cards. The journey offered two options. Users could cancel and renew their card or block it for 24 hours. If the user selected cancellation, they were asked which card to cancel and where the replacement should be delivered. If the user chose to block the card for 24 hours, a countdown started and the bank automatically cancelled and renewed the card when the period ended. This feature was accessible from both the card detail page and the transactions page.
Card application status tracking
Application tracking pages were designed for both mobile and web channels. Users could view the current status of their card applications with detailed explanations. To support consistency across the product, card status information was also added to the cards list so users could quickly understand the progress of their applications.
Tagging your transactions
Based on user insights, a need was identified to help customers group and track their spending more effectively. A tagging feature was introduced that allowed users to categorize their transactions. As users tagged more transactions, they could compare their spending with the average spending patterns in the same category, providing a clearer understanding of their financial behavior.

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