CASE STUDY 02

CASE STUDY 02

Southern Cross Health Insurance

Southern Cross Health Insurance

Southern Cross Health Insurance

I worked across four teams in the customer enablement space, My Southern Cross. Here I designed and maintained complex end-to-end user journeys which allowed policyholders to easily view, understand and manage their cover and claims. I also did work to streamline the design file ecosystem, and create flexible, scalable design systems for improved collaboration between teams.

Improving cross-team collaboration

Improving cross-team collaboration

Improving cross-team collaboration

Alongside member-facing delivery, I led a Figma file storage restructure from team-based ownership to an environment-based model. The change was planned to roll out in three phases so designers and developers could find the right assets with less dependency on individual team knowledge.

Alongside member-facing delivery, I led a Figma file storage restructure from team-based ownership to an environment-based model. The change was planned to roll out in three phases so designers and developers could find the right assets with less dependency on individual team knowledge.

WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
  • Increased visibility and findabiity of designs across teams & stakeholders.

  • Reduction in duplicated efforts through reusability.

  • Faster and more efficient handoffs & onboarding.

  • Established a standardized design pipeline to create a shared visual reference, enhancing collaboration across squads.

  • Created a shared understanding of the platform's current state

Procedure Checker

Procedure Checker

This feature offered users better understanding of their cover with a function that searched their policy for a specific surgical procedure to see if there was cover available for it in their surgical procedures benefit.

The flow translated policy detail into searchable results, expandable conditions, and stage-based next steps so members could understand what to do before booking care.

The flow translated policy detail into searchable results, expandable conditions, and stage-based next steps so members could understand what to do before booking care.

WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
  • 4,000+ searches in the first 24 hours after launch.

  • Expandable results helped members inspect cover detail without losing the overall path.

  • User's answer selections were connected directly to the next action with clear progression steps.

  • Where next steps couldn't be integrated directly (such as approval forms and provider guidance), users were soft-handed to the relevant pages based on their answers.

Procedure Checker

This feature reduced call volumes by providing a way for users to search their policy for a specific surgical procedure to see if there was cover available for it in their surgical procedures benefit. This feature was used heavily almost immediately after its launch.

The flow translated policy detail into searchable results, expandable conditions, and stage-based next steps so members could understand what to do before booking care.

WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
  • 4,000+ searches in the first 24 hours after launch.

  • Expandable results helped members inspect cover detail without losing the overall path.

  • User's answer selections were connected directly to the next action with clear progression steps.

  • Where next steps couldn't be integrated directly (such as approval forms and provider guidance), users were soft-handed to the relevant pages based on their answers.

Manage My Cover

Manage My Cover

Manage My Cover

Changing health insurance cover is not a simple settings update. Members need to understand who is covered, what benefits change, how excess choices affect premiums, and when a decision could have financial consequences.

The Manage My Cover flow organised that complexity into four steps and kept the cost maths visible at decision points. Dense benefit information was still present, but structured so members could compare, review, and submit without needing to call for every policy adjustment.

The policy-change experience kept cost, excess, and benefit differences visible while moving members through a four-step self-service flow.

The policy-change experience kept cost, excess, and benefit differences visible while moving members through a four-step self-service flow.

WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
  • Designed for policy changes including adding and removing insured people.

  • Supported decreased churn and decreased call volumes after release.

  • Balanced content-heavy insurance screens with progressive review and clear totals.

Click to Contact / Click to Action

Click to Contact / Click to Action

My Southern Cross: Click to Contact / Click to Action

Some insurance tasks still need human help. The product opportunity was to make that help easier to reach at the moment of friction, without forcing members to abandon the logged-in journey or repeat context elsewhere.

Click to Contact surfaced support options, callback requests, and queue confirmation inside the portal experience. A second phase extended the pattern into urgent and high-friction flows so help could appear in situ, not only in a general help area.

Contextual help paired contact choices with callback status, giving members a faster route to support without leaving the portal context.

WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
  • Improved speed-to-answer and call completion outcomes.

  • Callback functionality connected through Addons and other internal systems integrations.

  • Help choices were designed as part of the member journey, not as a detached support page.

The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.

© 2026 Ellie Earle

The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.

© 2026 Ellie Earle

The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.

© 2026 Ellie Earle