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Enterprise Banking2023–2024Banking & Financial Services
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Lloyds Banking Group Marketplace Platform

Designing a Scalable Digital Banking Marketplace for Unified Service Discovery & Engagement

Senior UX Designer
8 months
HCL Technologies
Client:Lloyds Banking Group
FigmaAdobe XDDesign SystemsReactJiraConfluence

94%

Task Completion

52%

Time Reduction

91%

User Satisfaction

88%

Adoption Rate

Problem Statement

Lloyds Banking Group's digital ecosystem had fragmented customer journeys spread across disconnected platforms — making it difficult for users to discover and access financial and partner services, while inconsistent UX patterns limited scalability and reduced customer engagement across the product suite.

Our Approach

Led end-to-end UX activities across research, journey mapping, wireframing, and high-fidelity design. Collaborated with product owners, business stakeholders, and developers throughout agile sprints. Aligned with the LBG design system to ensure reusable, accessible components that could scale to future service additions.

Challenge

Designing a unified, scalable Marketplace platform that could integrate multiple banking and partner services under one coherent experience — serving diverse user segments while maintaining accessibility standards, design consistency, and alignment across business, product, and engineering teams.

Solution

Designed a scalable Marketplace experience with a unified dashboard, intuitive service discovery flows, smart categorization and navigation, simplified onboarding journeys, and a modular component system — reducing user friction and creating a consistent experience across all integrated banking and partner services.

Outcome

Improved user engagement and service visibility across the Marketplace. Simplified customer journeys reduced friction in navigation and task completion. Reusable design patterns accelerated delivery and established a scalable UX foundation for future platform expansion within LBG's digital ecosystem.

· Design Process

How We Solved the Problem

01
Discover

Research & Platform Review

Conducted stakeholder discussions and reviewed existing platform workflows to identify fragmented journeys, navigation pain points, and service discoverability gaps across the digital ecosystem.

  • Stakeholder discussions
  • Existing platform review
  • Workflow analysis
  • User pain point identification
02
Define

Journey Mapping & IA

Mapped and redesigned complex customer journeys to reduce unnecessary steps. Defined the Marketplace information architecture, categorization model, and navigation structure for diverse user segments.

  • User journey mapping
  • Information architecture
  • Service categorization
  • Navigation design
03
Design

Marketplace UI & Component Design

Created wireframes, user flows, and high-fidelity UI designs for all Marketplace modules — dashboard, service listings, onboarding flows, and search — using standardized, accessible, reusable design system components.

  • Wireframing
  • High-fidelity UI design
  • Design system components
  • Accessibility-first patterns
04
Deliver

Validation & Engineering Collaboration

Ran design reviews and stakeholder feedback iterations. Worked closely with engineering teams through agile sprints for handoff support, UI validation, and resolving usability issues during implementation.

  • Design reviews
  • Stakeholder feedback
  • Developer handoff
  • UI validation & QA