Improving the complaint submission process

Challenge 

  • When people can’t get a problem fixed with their bank, they can submit a complaint to the CFPB, who will forward it to the company and work to get a response. However, analytics showed a higher-than-expected bounce rate.

  • Our goals during this design sprint were to make it easier to find how and where to start a complaint and to change the content to better set expectations of the complaint process.

Action 

  • Identified pain points using analytics, heatmaps, clickstream analysis, and usability testing.

  • Conducted a content audit, identifying redundancies and items to explore in testing.

  • Design & content: Created an interactive prototype used for testing, updating content between user research sessions.

  • Ran multiple rounds of user research refining interactive prototypes in between sessions. 

Result 

  • Reduced content by 40%, lowered bounce rate, increased time on page, and boosted complaint submissions by 1,000 per week.

  • See the page

Content audit helped identify redundancies and areas to explore during testing..

Analytics and heatmaps showed many visitors were distracted by a search box rather than helped.

Mobile and desktop sized screenshots of the revised page.