{"id":3571,"date":"2023-11-21T13:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melonydeen.com\/?page_id=3571"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:17:49","slug":"the-very-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melonydeen.com\/index.php\/works\/the-very-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Very Group (previously known as Shop Direct) is a multi-brand online retailer, diversifying into financial services, wanted to bring to market a white-label Home Insurance \u2018quote and buy\u2019 website for their online brands;<\/p>

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    It was imperative there was a consistent and seamless transition from the marketing website into the home insurance datacapture journey, the pages needed to be fully <\/span>responsive (62% of their users were browsing on mobile devices), and accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA). Working with the brands’ Design Systems I was to design and build the front-end pages using the responsive Bootstrap framework. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    I was the Lead Designer at an Insurance Software provider, working within a cross-functional team, collaborating between developers and The Very Group UX Team.<\/span><\/p>

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      We shipped a fully functional white-label website branded for 3 individual brands. The insurance website was live for over 12 months and contributed to a financial services 43.6% growth in underlying profit before tax (2014-2015).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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