SCHUFA

SCHUFA

SCHUFA

SCHUFA is Germany’s largest credit bureau. Pommer Design led UX for the relaunch of its Fraud Pool, the tool fraud managers and bank staff use to record fraud cases and review hits, and designed the interface of SCHUFA’s first consumer app.

SCHUFA is Germany’s largest credit bureau. Pommer Design led UX for the relaunch of its Fraud Pool, the tool fraud managers and bank staff use to record fraud cases and review hits, and designed the interface of SCHUFA’s first consumer app.

SCHUFA is Germany’s largest credit bureau. Pommer Design led UX for the relaunch of its Fraud Pool, the tool fraud managers and bank staff use to record fraud cases and review hits, and designed the interface of SCHUFA’s first consumer app.

Illustrative interface views: Fraud Pool dashboard and case capture, with the SCHUFA consumer app
Illustrative interface views: Fraud Pool dashboard and case capture, with the SCHUFA consumer app

Year

2022

Client

SCHUFA

Category

Credit scoring

Duration

6 months
Objective
Objective

SCHUFA decided to redesign and relaunch the Fraud Pool, its B2B tool for fraud managers and bank clerks. The goal: one platform that works for institutions in Germany and abroad. At the same time, SCHUFA was building its first consumer app, to make personal credit information transparent and easier to understand.

Role
Role

Pommer Design led UX on both products: user flows, design concepts, information architecture and visual design, plus parts of the research. The work ran across several agile teams and included MVPs for institutional clients and targeted usability testing.

Illustrative interface: Fraud Pool dashboard with new hits since the last login, notifications by type and saved drafts
Approach
Approach

Fraud managers start their day with what changed. So the dashboard opens on new hits since the last login, the request volume and open drafts. Recording a case follows six fixed steps, from reference to publication, and every step saves a draft. Each hit opens with the search that triggered it and the cases it matched. The consumer app leads with one plain rating and the entries behind it, and explains which factors affect the score.

Illustrative interface: recording a fraud case at the ID step, with the detail of a hit and its three matching cases
Outcome
Outcome

Version 1 of the new Fraud Pool launched with its dashboard and held up in live user tests and the iterations that followed. Pommer Design also delivered MVPs for institutional clients and the interface of SCHUFA’s first consumer app.

Illustrative interface: SCHUFA consumer app with the score rating, the list of entries and the factors that affect the score

Illustrative views. Client work is confidential.

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Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

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//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

03

//FAQ

Questions

ANSWERS

01

How does a project start?

With a short discovery phase. We agree on goals, constraints and success criteria and put them in writing first.

02

What kinds of organizations do you work with?

Organizations that run on information: banks and insurers, airlines and rail operators, energy, pharma and software companies. Size matters less than what’s at stake in the decisions the product supports. The common thread is complexity: regulation, several product teams, or expert users with no time to spare. Early-stage companies with a hard problem are welcome too.

03

How do you approach complex digital platforms?

We map the work before we design for it: who decides what, under which business rules, and how the systems depend on each other. That map becomes the frame for every feature and team that follows.

04

How do you keep a large product portfolio consistent?

With a design system that engineering owns as much as design does: shared components, documented decisions and a review process for changes. New teams start from it instead of from scratch, and the portfolio still feels like one product as it grows.

05

How do you measure success?

We test the new product against the old one on the same tasks and compare time, errors and ratings. A project succeeds when the new version wins on all three.

06

What’s different about working with Pommer Design?

Senior people run every project, from the first interview to launch. We measure the product again after release. The work counts as done when the numbers hold in daily use.

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Interaction design for enterprise platforms and operational tools. Tell us about your project.

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Frankfurt and London. Operating worldwide

Interaction design since 2010

Interaction design for enterprise platforms and operational tools. Tell us about your project.