AMANDA SAYERS
STRATEGY & INNOVATION DESIGNER

FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
MIT CIVIC DESIGN INITIATIVE
FINANCE
2019-2020
Defining and mapping the concept of “Financial Wellness” within the context of new and existing financial service offerings to design a tool that helps the client visualize the layers needed to achieve a holistic financial wellbeing journey.
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Team
Amanda Sayers
Emanuele Gandini
Yihyun Lim
Brief
“How can we design a holistic financial experience to help customers feel supported, guided, and informed about their financial health across different life stages?”
My Role
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Conducted secondary research
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Pulled-out the most relevant insights
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Created a design tool to visually map financial service offerings
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Presented the research and tool at client meetings
Learnings
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How to transform a big pool of case studies into a useful analysis
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Creating a design tool from scratch
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Working with remote ideation tools
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The finance and service sector!
process.

​01 Research​​
Collected case studies for each of our three focus areas
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Competitor research
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Analogous industries
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Interesting Tech

​02 Analyze
Pulled key insights from the data to present to the client, using value maps and service development timelines.

​03 Ideate and Map
Mapped financial services across a user’s life timeline to identify any patterns.

​04 Deliver
Developed a tool that filtered the services to visually represent how we defined a financial wellness user journey.