My ICBC

End-to-end UX Design
Responsive Wed Design
Role
UX Designer at ICBC
Team
Senior designers and content team
Tools
Axure RP
Duration
2025 - 2026

Description

Unifying driver licensing, insurance, claims, and payment services into one trusted digital portal. A responsive self-serve platform designed to bring ICBC services together in one consistent experience for British Columbians.

My contribution

  • Designing responsive experiences across My ICBC to ensure mobile-friendly interactions
  • Creating high-fidelity interactive mobile wireframes across the platform
  • Supporting UX and visual improvements across the ecosystem
  • Participating in dashboard and platform-wide design conversations and iteration
  • Conducting and facilitating usability testing
  • Taking research and testing notes
  • Creating follow-up tasks and UX improvements informed by feedback and analytics
  • Collaborating closely with content and cross-functional teams throughout design development

I also led the UX design of the upcoming Card Online Renewal & Replacement experience.

Highlights

OVERVIEW

My ICBC is ICBC’s evolving digital ecosystem that brings driver licensing, insurance, claims, payments, and account management into one unified portal.

Before My ICBC, many services existed separately with their own systems, branding, and sign-in experiences. This created fragmented journeys, inconsistent experiences, and trust concerns for users navigating between services.

My ICBC was created to provide a more connected, accessible, and seamless self-serve experience where users can manage essential services in one place.

The platform currently supports services across:

Driver Licensing

Road test booking, appointments, driving records, debt payments, mailed card status, practice knowledge testing, and ID guidance.

Insurance

Renewals, estimates, insurance documents, payment details, broker services, odometer submissions, and specialty vehicle services.

Claims

Online claims, claim management, witness reports, healthcare and repair facility tools, and vehicle history reports.

Account & Profile

Address updates, communication preferences, reminders, and profile management.

Payments

Direct deposit setup, payment plans, and debt management.

THE CHALLENGE

Before My ICBC, services such as driver licensing, insurance, and claims were maintained independently.

Users often had to sign into multiple systems to complete related tasks. Branding and experience patterns varied between services, creating friction and inconsistency.

This fragmentation created larger UX challenges:

  • Separate sign-in experiences
  • Inconsistent branding and interaction patterns
  • Limited connection between services
  • Disconnected account management
  • Reduced continuity across journeys
  • Trust concerns caused by inconsistent digital experiences

Trust is critical within government services.

Users frequently questioned whether they were still interacting with an official ICBC experience when branding and experiences changed between services.

The challenge was not simply designing screens. It was helping unify disconnected systems into a trusted and cohesive experience.

Research and Insights

To validate navigation, authentication, discoverability, and payment experiences across My ICBC, we conducted moderated usability testing across desktop and mobile.

I participated in facilitation, note taking, observation, and translating findings into design improvements and prototype iterations.

Testing Overview:

3 testing rounds
18 participants
Desktop and mobile testing
Diverse participants across BC
Task-based evaluation and ease-of-use scoring

Participants completed realistic tasks across:

  • Authentication and sign-in
  • Dashboard and service navigation
  • Claims and insurance journeys
  • Payment plans and billing
  • Direct deposit and account management

KEY FINDINGS

Testing revealed a strong overall success rate, with most participants completing tasks successfully and reporting a positive ease-of-use experience.

Key insights included:

Authentication & Sign-in

Some participants struggled with sign-in visibility and mobile KBA layouts.

Iteration

  • Improved sign-in visibility
  • Simplified mobile authentication layouts
  • Added clearer verification guidance

Payments & Billing

Participants sometimes associated payment tasks with insurance or claims and struggled to find payment-related information.

Iteration

  • Added cross-linking between services
  • Improved payment plan visibility
  • Moved important information into persistent info boxes

Direct Deposit

Testing revealed banner blindness and confusion around banking terminology.

Iteration

  • Revised layout hierarchy
  • Improved field labels and examples
  • Refined onboarding flow and visibility

Claims & Service Navigation

Some users selected unintended pathways due to mental model differences.

Iteration

  • Improved wayfinding
  • Added clearer navigation and task entry points

DESIGN THROUGH ITERATION

Testing reinforced the value of designing through real behaviour rather than assumptions.

By observing users, identifying friction points, and iterating prototypes, we helped shape clearer and more intuitive experiences across My ICBC.

PROCESS

Designing My ICBC required close collaboration and continuous iteration.

The process included:

  • Research and discovery
  • User testing and feedback sessions
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Content design partnership
  • Flow creation
  • Low-fidelity exploration
  • High-fidelity interactive wireframes
  • Responsive design refinement
  • Presentation and stakeholder communication
  • Iteration informed by analytics and usability findings

The work involved ongoing coordination across teams, evolving requirements, and multiple rounds of refinement.

Solution

DESIGNING A UNIFIED EXPERIENCE

My ICBC was designed to help users understand and manage important information at a glance.

The dashboard brings together driver licensing, insurance, claims, and account information into one experience with clear navigation and meaningful actions.

Each service appears as collapsible sections that allow users to focus on what matters most while reducing visual overload.

The experience provides quick visibility into:

  • Driver licensing information
  • Vehicles and insurance details
  • Claims information
  • Account services
  • Relevant next actions

Contextual calls to action help users move directly into important tasks such as reporting claims, booking appointments, managing services, or completing transactions.

I contributed to responsive layouts and supported UX and visual improvements across this shared experience, helping ensure consistency across desktop and mobile interactions.

Features

PAYMENT & BILLING EXPERIENCE

One of my primary focus areas within My ICBC was the Payment & Billing experience.

I designed the payment plan experience, including:

  • User flows
  • Low-fidelity wireframes
  • High-fidelity interactive wireframes
  • Error and information messaging behaviour
  • Mobile responsive experiences

The payment plan interface needed to communicate a large amount of financial information clearly and confidently.

Users may manage multiple vehicles and policies while needing to understand payment status quickly.

The experience included:

  • Policy details
  • Vehicle information
  • Payment schedules
  • First and upcoming payments
  • Scheduled payment frequency
  • Remaining payments
  • Payment amounts
  • Status and account messaging

Status indicators included:

  • Active
  • Missed payment
  • Debt
  • Paid in full
  • Account issue

The primary UX challenge was hierarchy.

The information needed to remain readable, trustworthy, and easy to scan while balancing financial complexity and responsive design requirements.

Through testing, analytics-informed iteration, team reviews, and continuous refinement, the experience evolved into a clearer and more user-friendly payment system.

Impact & relflection

Impact

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My ICBC helped support a more connected and seamless self-serve experience for British Columbians.

The platform contributed to:

  • Improved consistency across ICBC digital services
  • Stronger trust through unified experiences and branding
  • Increased completion and success rates across online services (placeholder for confirmed metrics)
  • Better mobile accessibility and responsive interactions
  • Continued evolution of a scalable digital ecosystem

Reflection

My ICBC reinforced the importance of designing scalable systems.

Creating a unified ecosystem for millions of British Columbians could not happen all at once. The work required balancing long-term vision with MVP thinking, prioritizing essential services first while creating room for future growth.

The project strengthened my understanding of:

Designing scalable experiences
Balancing business, policy, and UX requirements
Building trust through consistency
Accessibility and responsive design at scale
Collaborating across complex teams and systems

It reminded me that successful digital transformation is often gradual, collaborative, and deeply connected to trust.

EXPLORE MORE

Card Online Renewal & Replacement

Leading the end-to-end UX of a future self-serve experience for BC drivers.

I led the UX design of ICBC’s upcoming Card Online Renewal & Replacement experience, from research and flow creation to high-fidelity interactive wireframes, testing, iteration, and stakeholder collaboration.

Due to confidentiality and upcoming launch timelines, detailed screens are not publicly available.

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