LQID Bank — Challenger bank UX

Head of UX for a UK challenger bank: research, personas, journeys, and a scalable design language.

Disciplines: product-design, design-systems.

Role

Head of UX — research frameworks, personas, service maps, scalable UI language across squads.

Outcomes

• Shared journey maps aligning risk, ops, marketing, and product teams
• Component decisions compatible with challenger velocity and audits
• Persona narratives product squads reused in prioritisation rituals

Context

Early-stage challenger brands win on clarity and reassurance. Designing at LQID meant balancing unmistakable differentiation with behaviours customers already trust.

Approach

Built living documentation for journeys, tightened feedback loops across squads, and invested early in foundational tokens/layout rules so experimentation didn’t create UI debt explosions.

Impact

Teams delivered faster experimentation without drifting into inconsistent experiences that erode challenger credibility.

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