Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

doppo

UX/UI · Illustration · Art Direction
Project Description
Zurich wanted to move away from all the paperwork and bureaucracy of traditional insurance companies, and introduce a new approach for car insurance based on customer empowerment. As a result, we created an MVP of a 100% digital car insurance service, which empowers consumers by allowing them to decide how much of their car value is covered.
Role
· UX / UI
· Illustrator
· Art director
Outcomes
First, the business team made research to identify business opportunities. Then they discovered a blue ocean between the third-party coverage, which is too basic, vs the full risk coverage, which is too expensive. So, they started to design the product portfolio and value proposition base on the idea of “Create your own full risk”.

Meanwhile, as part of the design team, I worked in the UX/UI made research to identify the best practices (benchmark, competitors research, visual research...), and opportunities that leading us to define the UX/UI design pillars of the MVP: Mobile-firs, comprehensible language, and customer's empowerment.

Base on that pillars, I designed the UX/UI of the MVP concept, not only creating the flows, wireframes, and the visual line, also illustrating the concept of value of the car in a visual way. I was creating the visual representation of the car in which users can interact, deciding the sum the insured wants to cover according to the value of their vehicle and the risk they are willing to take.

This visual representation worked as the visual base to create the visual line of the brand, from the logo to the digital product.






Second, we created the brand from the inside out: From a service perspective, rather than simplifying it in a logo. We started to design the main brand elements of the concept (an app) based on customer empowerment. Those elements were the base to guide the creation of the logo and the naming of the product. The design was build on modern, gentle and clean principles.

We started designing from the essential elements based on circular shapes, evolved to the more complex, and finally the naming “doppo”, logotype, brand identity guide, stationery and logo assets.

The name, which comes from the Italian word dopo (after), is inspired on the fact the value of insurance services always become tangible after the fact.
Brand
· You can always learn from different processes even if you do not agree with them.
· Leading a team of visual designers is very delicate due to people’s egos.
· You never know when you are going to do something that you don’t expect.
· When you don’t know something, no matter what, do your best to find the right person, don’t settle for the first answer.
· You must learn to say no, and the rick is to always explain why.
· It is good to be a perfectionist, but it is better to do the right thing according to context and time.

In short, I learned the importance of ensuring continuous communication in the first phase of the project, aligning the goals, the roles and shaping a collaborative balance when all the team creating a visual concept. Of course, communication must be bi-directional, you must listen to each member of the team.
Learnings