Creating RBC Learning Content at Horizn

UX Writing

My Role

At Horizn, I created step-by-step guides (demos) to guide banking clients and employees on how to use digital banking services.

I designed dozens of demos and other learning content during my time at Horizn.

Some banks I worked with are listed below.

The Task

RBC approached Horizn to create a new set of demos for one of their banking features—RBC Direct Investing.

Customer Impact:
1. Educate customers about Direct Investing so they can invest with confidence.
2. Educate new RBC customer service reps on how to use Direct Investing so they can educate RBC customers.

Business Impact:
1. More online & mobile logins.
2. Reduce call centre volume.
3. Employees understanding products pre-launch.
A collection of banking logos. Scotiabank, RBC, Nationwide, HSBC, National Bank Of Canada, Bank Of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, CIBC, MT Bank, BMO, Peoples United Bank.
Banking clients I worked with at Horizn.

Why make demos?

The pandemic drove many customers to switch to digital banking. Also, newer, smaller digital banking competitors are attracting a growing audience—shifting some customers away from traditional banks.

Horizn creates straightforward product demonstrations to help banks increase digital adoption. Releasing new learning content in unison with new or updated banking services assists client conversion to digital banking.

Across all Horizn clients, demos have led to:

33%
increase in customer online bank logins
235%
increase in customer mobile banking logins
75%
of employees being digitally fluent in products 30 day pre-launch

Approach

RBC sent my team a brief on what sort of content should be covered in the Direct Investing demos.

I collaborated with my team after reviewing the brief. I made suggestions on what content should be included or excluded. Demos should be short, while still conveying all necessary information.

Implementation

The work was distributed among the writers and designers. I started creating the demos from assets provided by the client. We used an internal tool to arrange images of screens into a flow.


RBC Direct Investing demos were created for several categories:

For this reason, consistency is very important. Terminology and instructions should be consistent throughout the experiences. Consistency reduces the length of the learning process and eliminates confusion.

A collection of banking logos. Scotiabank, RBC, Nationwide, HSBC, National Bank Of Canada, Bank Of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, CIBC, MT Bank, BMO, Peoples United Bank.
An example of a demo I created for RBC

Voice & Tone

The voice is clear, simple and friendly. I wanted the copy to be straightforward and concise—while maintaining the friendliness you would receive from an RBC Customer Service Representative.

The tone is Instructive, helpful and sometimes motivational.

Accessibility (A11y)

The demos are very visual, so each one has thorough a11y copy for every step. This is the copy someone using a screen reader would hear.
I write accessibility copy to allow people with visual impairments to understand:

  • where they are in the demo
  • what is happening on their current step
  • what action do they need to take next
  • why they need to take that next action
A collection of banking logos. Scotiabank, RBC, Nationwide, HSBC, National Bank Of Canada, Bank Of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, CIBC, MT Bank, BMO, Peoples United Bank.
A demo being used in person at a Wells Fargo bank.

Conclusion

While I don't have any statistics on RBC Direct Investing demos specifically, the digital activation strategy across the employee learning site and customer-facing channels has been a huge success.

With over 20 million page views, and more than 10.5 million demo shares, it has become one of RBC’s largest internal communication channels.

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