Quoting system for insurance agents
Selective Insurance Quoting System Overview
Selective Insurance Company of America provides insurance products and services to businesses, public entities and individuals through independent agents in 27 Eastern, Southern, Midwestern, and Southwestern states and the District of Columbia.
UX Team was hired to redesign User Experience of Selective’s Insurance Policy Quoting and Issuance application, which involved extensive user interviews and shadowing, prototyping, usability testing, and Angular development.
Goals
Increase the speed to quote
50% of agents surveyed reported that the number one more important factor when considering an insurance carrier to use is speed to quote. The remaining 50% listed speed to quote as the second most important factor.
Because of the product roadmap, the new UI would only be pushed out to quotes that meet certain criteria. It is important to determine whether that criteria is met as early as possible in the process so users don’t have to re-do work if the policy is not eligible.
Determine automatic binding eligibility on the first screen
Increase small business policy issuance
Selective was losing business to competitors in part because their competitors’ quoting application was simply faster and easier to use.
Evidence Gathering
Purpose
We sought to get a deep understanding of:
- The goals and vision of Selective
- Gain a deep understanding of how insurance policies are quoted
- Each persona’s priorities as they relate to the quoting insurance policies
- Identifying pain points in the current application
- Validating new designs with real users
Activities
UX Team conducted the following activities:
- Teamwork sessions with stakeholders
- Competitive analysis
- UX audit
- User shadowing and interviews
- Surveys
- Card sort study
Key Findings
Interviewees expressed frustration with the class code lookup, citing the need to uncheck “full word” in order to search for partial matches.
The new design features an auto-complete as well as a browsable interface to help agents find the correct class code.
Survey participants agreed that speed to quote was either the number one or number two most important factor when deciding which insurance carrier to use.
By asking for the insured’s address first, we can pre-fill and pre-select several fields and options to make the quoting process faster and easier for agents.
Design Ideation
Information Architecture
UX Team audited the existing quote flow and proposed fields that could be eliminated, content that could be prefilled and steps that could be consolidated to make the quoting process faster and easier for agents.
Visual Design
The new streamlined user experience switches the user’s focus from heavy, redundant data entry to “review and edit as needed”. Most of the information is automatically populated for them based on the insured’s business name and address. In many cases, the agent just has to select the policy types and the automated pre-fills and the recommendation engine do the rest.
Development
We converted the mockups into a high-fidelity Angular prototype. We use the prototype for usability testing and also passed it along to Selective’s development team as dev-ready assets.
Conclusion
UX Team continues to work with Selective as the application moves through the roadmap. We provide support, advice on UX for new business needs and features and mockups as needed.
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