← Chris Meisner

Contract designer · 2016–17

Learnvest / Northwestern Mutual

Concept flows and screens for large-format tablet dashboards a client and an advisor would use together, as the one outsider hired to show leadership something forward-looking. Which meant learning how the business actually worked first, so the prototypes solved real problems rather than looking futuristic — hypothetical screens a C-level audience could read, with genuine mechanics behind them.

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The challenge
The head of the design department needed to show the company's leadership something forward-looking, and had budget for exactly one outsider to bring energy the internal team could not spend on itself.
Owned
Concept flows and screens for large-format tablet dashboards a client and an advisor would use together — which meant learning how the business actually worked first, so the prototypes solved real problems rather than looking futuristic.
Outcome
Hypothetical screens a C-level audience could read, with genuine mechanics behind them — the thing you show to find out whether a direction is worth funding.
Learnvest / Northwestern Mutual — Chris Meisner