Berliner Volksbank UX/UI Redesign: Onboarding Flow & Dashboard

The Versicherungsmanager is a digital insurance-management service built for Volksbank by Friendsurance, Europe’s leading bancassurance platform. As part of the interview process with Friendsurance, I was given a case study to redesign the product’s onboarding experience and dashboard. The redesign focuses on the four onboarding screens and the dashboard five key screens where a first-time user decides whether to trust the product with their data, understand its value, and continue using it or abandon the experience.

year

2026

timeframe

3 days

tools

Figma, Claude, Figma Site

category

UX/UI

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research

The Versicherungsmanager is a digital service that brings users’ insurance policies together in one place and provides a personalized coverage analysis with recommendations. I started by auditing the existing onboarding flow and dashboard from a first-time user’s perspective. The goal was to identify where the experience created unnecessary friction, reduced trust, or made it harder for users to understand what was expected of them. 5 screens redesigned · 6 usability heuristics addressed · End-to-end onboarding flow

The Versicherungsmanager is a digital service that brings users’ insurance policies together in one place and provides a personalized coverage analysis with recommendations. I started by auditing the existing onboarding flow and dashboard from a first-time user’s perspective. The goal was to identify where the experience created unnecessary friction, reduced trust, or made it harder for users to understand what was expected of them. 5 screens redesigned · 6 usability heuristics addressed · End-to-end onboarding flow

The Versicherungsmanager is a digital service that brings users’ insurance policies together in one place and provides a personalized coverage analysis with recommendations. I started by auditing the existing onboarding flow and dashboard from a first-time user’s perspective. The goal was to identify where the experience created unnecessary friction, reduced trust, or made it harder for users to understand what was expected of them. 5 screens redesigned · 6 usability heuristics addressed · End-to-end onboarding flow

key insights

The heuristic evaluation revealed a common issue across the experience: users were often asked to provide personal information before the value of doing so was clear. Several interaction patterns added further friction from unclear required fields and unfamiliar terminology to rigid choices, pre-selected consent, and a dashboard that immediately framed the user’s profile as incomplete.

The heuristic evaluation revealed a common issue across the experience: users were often asked to provide personal information before the value of doing so was clear. Several interaction patterns added further friction from unclear required fields and unfamiliar terminology to rigid choices, pre-selected consent, and a dashboard that immediately framed the user’s profile as incomplete.

The heuristic evaluation revealed a common issue across the experience: users were often asked to provide personal information before the value of doing so was clear. Several interaction patterns added further friction from unclear required fields and unfamiliar terminology to rigid choices, pre-selected consent, and a dashboard that immediately framed the user’s profile as incomplete.

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Dashboard →

The redesign therefore focused on one central question:

How might we make the experience clearer, more trustworthy, and more useful while collecting the information needed to deliver personalized insurance recommendations?

This led to five design priorities: preventing errors at the point of input rather than reporting them afterward, and building trust by explaining why personal data is needed and how it's used. Rigid choices were replaced with flexible options that reflect real-life situations and avoid dead ends. Consent became an informed choice, with required and optional agreements clearly separated through explicit opt-in patterns. Finally, the dashboard was reframed as a guide that shows progress and meaningful next steps, with each decision tracing back to a specific finding from the heuristic evaluation.

From Friction to Clarity

Persona selection → independent questions. One rigid "pick a group" question was split into conditional questions (status, children, employment, housing), collecting more precise data with less complexity per step.

Opt-out → opt-in consent. Required and optional permissions were visually separated, with optional items unchecked by default — fixing a legal risk and a comprehension problem at once.

"Incomplete" → completion % + missing fields. A vague status label became a specific, actionable to-do list on every policy card.

Clickable Prototype

Dashboard →


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grafkardelen@gmail.com

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grafkardelen@gmail.com