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Fernwell

Banking copy that passes compliance and still calms a declined card

Fernwell case study cover.

Problem

Copy that serves only compliance leaves anxious customers calling support with questions the interface could have answered.

My role

Solo: content strategy, UX writing, notification strategy and a content design system.

Outcome

16 artboards, five of them interactive, grounded in four cited published research findings.

Role
Content designer & UX writer
Team
Solo
Tools
Figma, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Concept project. Fernwell is a fictional bank. Figures in the case study illustrate sizing and testing methods and are not real data.

1. Scope

  • A public product page, a secure account dashboard and a card-lock security alert flow.
  • Notification strategy across push, SMS, email and in-app, matched to urgency.
  • Content governance rules for three components, WCAG 2.1 AA annotations, and an AI-agent permissions and audit-trail pattern.
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