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Wells Fargo2022Content Design

Make a massive bank sound human.

A 170-year-old institution competing with fintech apps that talk like real people. My job: cut the jargon, find the human, ship the thing. Yes, there were compromises.

Intuitive Investor welcome screen Investment goals form Risk willingness screen

Problem

A 170-year-old bank competing with fintech apps that talk like actual people. Every screen read like a legal disclaimer. The Intuitive Investor platform had been rebuilt from the ground up. What it needed was language that matched the ambition.

Solution

Rewrote onboarding flows, investment goal screens, risk tolerance language, and confirmation states. Worked in Figma alongside designers, product managers, and legal to soften the language without losing accuracy.

The principle: if a person you respect wouldn't say it at dinner, we shouldn't say it in the app. I'm not a lawyer, financial advisor, or product owner. So I had help. And yeah, there were compromises.

"Ze results from day one."

Result

591
Applications, day one
10×
Pre-launch daily avg
556
Went digital
20×
Previous digital avg

And that was just day one.

Want to talk about the work?

josiah.goodrum@gmail.com

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