JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Internal Underwriting Web App
Due to JPMorgan Chase & Co. guidelines, I cannot publicly share internship project artifacts and specifics. I can speak more about my experience and involvement upon request.
Chase Tower in Chicago by John Picken, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
MY ROLE
Designer and front-end developer
TIMELINE
June 2017 – August 2017
For 10 weeks during summer 2017, I worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a Technology Analyst Intern on a team starting an internal web app. The goal was to automate the day-to-day reporting done by JPMorgan underwriters with an intuitive web app that visualized complex financial data.
Designing and developing a web app
My role specifically involved designing and developing the UI and demoing the app to underwriters for feedback. I developed the UI because this internship was during a time I experimented with being a developer—the fact I’m a designer speaks for itself.
Driving the web app’s visual design involved researching and adhering to JPMorgan branding guidelines. This included collaborating with other developers and designers to source the appropriate fonts, colors, and assets.
I developed the front-end in TypeScript and translated my team’s visual design decisions into HTML and CSS. I also worked with the other interns to make sure the back-end they were developing was interacting well with the front-end.
In order to keep users as the focus of our app, I led application demos to underwriters to solicit feedback steer our design in the right direction.
Hackathon
During the internship, I also contributed to a JPMorgan Chase & Co. Hackathon project unrelated to the underwriting app by lending my UX research and design skills. I conducted user interviews with Chase bank tellers as well as designed the UI in Sketch. The hackathon project was selected as one of five winners from over 700 submissions and 6500 participants in the JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2017 Hackathon.
