Start with growth: a pension-app design decision
Pension information can feel distant from the decisions people make with their money every day. In my independent Palace Pensions design study, I explored a different starting point: make contributions, growth and retirement planning easier to see together.
The question behind the dashboard
An account structure can explain where information lives without helping someone understand what it means. The design question was how the opening view could show what had been contributed, how a balance was changing and where to go next.
I chose to lead the dashboard with growth rather than make account structures the first thing someone had to interpret. That is a decision about information hierarchy. It is not evidence that the interface increased engagement or changed saving behaviour.
Bring the related tasks into one experience
The study brings pension management, investments and retirement planning into one mobile experience. Contributions are part of that structure, rather than an isolated task someone has to rediscover.
A short contribution flow was a design goal. I have not published a timed usability result for it, so I would not describe a particular completion time as a measured outcome.
What the screens can demonstrate
The screens show the information order, navigation and contribution direction I designed. They let another designer or a prospective collaborator inspect those choices and discuss alternatives. They cannot establish how a launched service performs or whether people understand a regulated product without further work.
My contribution covered mobile app design and supporting marketing visuals. Palace is an independent design study, and an interactive frontend is in progress. It is not a live pension service.
The next useful check
The next step is to evaluate the journey with people using an interactive version: what they understand from the opening view, what they expect a contribution to do, and where they hesitate. Those are evaluation questions, not results I am claiming to have collected.
