Demonstrate the art of the possible in 10 days, delivering a engineering-ready prototype supported by high level time and cost estimates.
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Good design isn’t (just) about beautiful UI – it’s about solving problems and meeting user needs with simplicity and elegance. And good design has a direct relationship with ROI, adoption and user satisfaction.
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Experience design is a complex process that balances user desirability, business viability and technical feasibility. Our Digital Experience team works with you to build and reimagine features, interfaces, journeys and whole applications to deliver more competitive, meaningful experiences to your users. This fixed price, design-led engagement enables you to test out ideas and demonstrate the art of the possible within a standard, cost-effective scope. The ultimate deliverable for this engagement is an engineering-ready visual specification that can be used to build impactful business cases and transform stakeholder buy-in.
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Clear onward path
Work through options and create a clear onward path with expert design input.
Our service designers capture business and user requirementsvia primary research, using figma to design, build and test newways of presenting, augmenting and extending your application functionality. In 10 days we build a working, clickable prototype of your ideaor hypothesis that enables us to accurately estimate the effortassociated with production engineering. This approach effectivelydelivers a sprint zero for your application development project.
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What you get.
We help you deliver an engineering-ready prototype supported by high level time
and cost estimates, including:
A high fidelity interactive prototype (delivered as a Figma file) that demonstrates a specific feature, set of screens or user journey, depending on your use case
An actionable plan to take the design into production engineering
A high-level estimate of time and cost.
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How we help.
Our design consultants and ux experts will help you.
Review and test presentation and engagement approaches in a fixed-price framework.
Work through options and create a clear onward path with expert design input.
Engage internal stakeholders with visual,interactive assets.
Build richer business cases that inspire decision makers.
Get to Sprint 1 more effectively.
Seamlessly commission follow-on engineering work to bring your prototype to production.
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Get the latest from our sector and domain
Watch the video, read the whitepaper, explore the case study.
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Deploy as a standalone landing zone or connect to your enterprise.
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Right-size to your organisation, requirements and workloads through configuration and enhancements.
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Ongoing support and management to standard operational and custom KPIs
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Range of collaboration options to complement your in-house expertise.
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Why Ascent
Why Ascent?
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Experience.
Ascent has helped a wide range of diverse businesses evolve their approach to digital experience, from mid-market ecommerce to public sector and global financial services.
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Resources.
Working with us gives you access to:
Consultative skills to translate your business requirements into engineering-ready design specifications.
Experienced, high quality UI and UX resources within cost-effective engagement structures
Our 500+ team of certified cloud, data and visual engineers, architects, data scientists, product owners and delivery leaders able to build your vision, not just design it
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Committment.
We work to create the right level of intimacy with your teams, understanding their perspectives and their relationship with your objectives and required outcomes. We have a proven track record of:
Collaborators comfortable working with business stakeholders, design and development teams to custom KPIs
Strong process and tools, streamlining business value discovery with proven methodologies
Design resources that can be engaged on a range of commercial terms across your experience optimisation journey.
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CONE 2 Design Prototype | 5 Steps
Our approach to demonstrate the art of the possible in 10 days.
In 10 days we build a working, clickable prototype of your idea or hypothesis that enables us to accurately estimate the effort associated with production engineering. This approach effectively delivers a Sprint Zero for your application development project.
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Days 1-4:
Discover.
Over the first few days, our design consultants explore your problem/opportunity domain through targeted workshops, ensuring they understand your business, application and user contexts. We document key pain and gain points via a process demo and collaboratively set goals for the sprint.
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Days 4-6:
Wireframe.
Once Discovery is complete, the team starts creating initial low-fi sketches and wireframes, which are peer-reviewed and internally iterated before being shared with your team for review and feedback. We run critique sessions to determine which design approaches are most likely to succeed.
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Prototype build.
The prototyping process turns low-fi designs into a series of interactive high-fidelity mockups in Figma.
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Test & feedback.
The team goes through rapid feedback cycles during this phase to refine and iterate the prototype based on key stakeholder perspectives.
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Bring prototype to production.
Seamlessly commission follow-on engineering work to bring your prototype to production.
At this year’s Global Insurtech Summit in London on 18th April, Fintech Global interviews Robert to draw on his extensive experience and deep expertise in insurtech. Listen now.
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Robert Rimmele, Principal Architect at Ascent, shares his insights on the value of data, automation, and AI in insurance.
Are insurance firms fundamentally IT companies? How do we automate while giving customers a seamless experience? What do insurers really aim to achieve with AI?
At this year’s Global Insurtech Summit in London on 18th April, Fintech Global interviews Robert to draw on his extensive experience and deep expertise in insurtech.
Robert answers the following questions:
What are some of the biggest trends you are seeing in insurance?
How can improved data tools help insurance companies transform their operations?
Why is effectively leveraging data so critical in a highly competitive environment?
How should insurers be leveraging automation within their workflows?
How is Ascent helping insurers with their digitalisation efforts?
Robert Rimmele
Principal Architect
Ascent
Robert is a Principal Architect at Ascent, with over 20 years’ experience of delivering practical technical consulting to global insurers and reinsurers. His main interests are large-scale architectures for data intensive applications and software development models and organisations.
Our customer is a leading global provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions, with a reputation for innovation.
The brief.
Like most reinsurers, our customer had a decentralised legacy landscape with heavy functional overlap across a diverse range of technologies. Different applications — each covering the net/gross pricing workflow — had been created for specialised Treaty and Facultative areas. This created inefficiencies as underwriters moved between multiple tools and interfaces to complete pricing processes.
We were initially engaged to help create a unified, streamlined underwriting platform geared for scale, consolidating legacy applications into a single integrated workflow. Over time, these original requirements evolved into an innovation-led roadmap that would enable our customer to build competitive edge with second and third generation pricing capabilities. This included developing the ability to flexibly combine and link mathematical models across business segments, and later the ability to fully automate the underwriting process, using meta data to build new models that cover new risks and enable the processing of dark data.
The solution.
A multi-year project. Multiple teams. Multiple countries. We worked closely with actuaries and underwriters on a daily basis and built the deep domain knowledge to deliver success for our customer.
Underwriting platform
We consolidated net pricing kernels (developed by the actuaries under a common loss component interface) and introduced a Common Gross Pricing calculation that incorporated loadings and contract conditions.
To build commonality and to harmonise the legacy landscape, we designed a common reporting interface at a database level across all Treaty and Facultative business domains to normalise operations, and a common submission and coverage module to define semantics in proportional and non-proportional business.
This enabled us to standardise both the way offers are created and signed, and the management of long-tail triangle structures, bringing the workflow into a single tool through automation.
Exposure
We then built a system that would manage detailed location-based exposure data from various sources and formats ranging from EDM to Excel input.
The exposure system is cloud-native, built on Azure for scale, and accommodates varying modelling workloads and large exposure data volumes. Exposure data is transformed and normalised into a format where it can be analysed and used for natural catastrophe model runs, additionally interfacing with the underwriting platform where it is used to shape pricing.
Automated underwriting platform
To further competitive edge through digital innovation, we created a channel proposition for the insurance sector that transforms time-to-market for new products and services via a fully automated underwriting process.
The outcome.
The integrated underwriting system now allows thousands of underwriters across the globe to efficiently calculate reinsurance coverages, using significantly fewer tools. The new reporting interface has also given Corporate Underwriting a consolidated view of performance across all Treaty and Facultative insurance products.
The exposure system enables our customer to minimise the operational burden in risk analysis and modelling, and to improve modelling productivity overall — accessing, calibrating, comparing and deploying risk models in one place.
The automated underwriting platform has helped our customer maintain their position at the frontier of insurance innovation, helping its channel partners launch, distribute and scale new or existing insurance products significantly faster, reducing costs and increasing process efficiency.