Akbank Mobile App by Akbank T.A.S is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Gold in Mobildesign Competition Category.

GoldMobil· 2020

Akbank Mobile App

by Akbank T.A.S

Client: Akbank

A' Design Award in Gold Winner in Mobil Category

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The Design

About Akbank Mobile App

Das neue Design der Akbank Mobile App bietet eine neue Perspektive in Bezug auf soziale, intelligente, zukunftssichere und lohnende Bankerfahrungen. Mit dem personalisierten Bereichsdesign auf der Hauptseite können Benutzer intelligente Einblicke anzeigen, um ihr finanzielles Leben zu vereinfachen. Mit diesem neuen Designansatz sprechen herkömmliche Bankgeschäfte die Sprache der Benutzer mit Kontakt-Miniaturansichten, vereinfachten Aktionsabläufen und Konzepten.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Gold

Akbank Mobile App ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Gold, einer überaus prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, wunderbare und herausragende Designs. Gold-Gewinner sind äußerst innovative, visionäre und glamourös blendende Schöpfungen, die das Genie, die Weisheit und die Meisterschaft ihrer Designer widerspiegeln. Von Akbank Mobile App wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgepriesene, trendsetzende und monumentale Erfindung ist, die beispiellosen Mehrwert liefert. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Gold prämierte Design ist ein spektakuläres, respektiertes Projekt, das den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie in hohem Maße zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Akbank Mobile App erzeugt intensive Gefühle des Verlangens, weckt Leidenschaft, ermutigt zur Kreativität und fasziniert uns.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Akbank Mobile provides a new perspective on traditional banking which now speaks the users' language with contact thumbnails, simplified actions, phrases, and concepts that are familiar to the user rather than system-oriented terms. Its strength is the human-first approach to building empathy and trust. With its personalized area on the main page, the users can view smart insights to ease their financial life. Also, the users will save time with the AI that thinks in users’ stead.
Dimensions & Packaging: iOS, Android
Tags: Banking, Banking App, Personalized Experience, Personal Finance Assistance, Smart Banking, Social Banking, Future-Proof Banking, Rewarding Banking
Production Technology: The app is available for iOS and Android devices in English and Turkish language versions.
Design Tools: Sketch, After Effects, Principle, Photoshop, Invision, Zeplin
Development tools: Angular JS, React, React native, .Net, PHP, html5, javascript
Design Challenge: To enable to communication we envisioned, we had to ask the user to give a portion of their dashboard and trust us that it will be worth it. Since mostly the communication the users expect is related to sales, initially users hesitated to read this area. We did a lot of prototyping to find the right size, look and feel and content curation to help users own and love this communication with the bank. We also had a lot of technical challenges to create insights and place them in a dashboard without negative impacts on the performance of the app.
Research: With a human-centric approach, we benefited from a wide range of research methods like market research, questionaries, user interviews, shadowing, heuristic evaluation and design workshops to develop better empathy with users. We turned our insights into creating personas, user stories, journey mappings. To validate the new design we ran several user testings. As a result, we verified our hypothesis on what people would expect from smart, social, intuitive and personalized banking experience.
Inspiration: We want to make Akbank customers love everyday banking. Therefore, we've started to reimagine and design all digital channels of Akbank. Akbank Mobile is one of the pillars of this process. After all the studies the team went through, we have been thinking about how to make banking smart, social, future-proof and rewarding. We designed Akbank Mobile. With our product’s personalizations and recommendations, a mobile banking experience has never been so clean and intuitive.
Project Duration: The design process of the project started in the last quarter of 2018 in Istanbul and had first released in September 2019 in Istanbul. It is an ongoing journey still with updates and user feedback.
Operation Flow: Normally the communication of users and the bank was mostly composed of one-way interactions. We wanted to create two-way communication and make it free from financial terms. We create a Communication Area on our dashboard. This is an area where our AI engine gives smart insights to the user to reduce stress, help them make more of what they have. Here users are also sharing their feedbacks and needs with the bank. So it is a unique place for valuable two-way conversations.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Akbank T.A.Ş, 2019.
Team Members: Gizem Öncü
Ayhan Arslan
Anıl Emmiler
Berivan Atik
Dilara Gül
Hande Taner
Mete Eraydın
Itır Akel
Akbank Design and Development Team
R/GA London Team
Image Credits: Image #1: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, Akbank Mobile, 2019. Image #2: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, Akbank Mobile, 2019.
Image #3: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, Akbank Mobile, 2019.
Image #1: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, Akbank Mobile, 2019.
Video Credits: Illustrator Akbank Design Studio, Akbank Mobile, 2019.