Side projects
Angelhack Hong Kong 2016
Angelhack Hong Kong 2016
Building an insurance policy management app in 24 hours
May 2016
|
Hackathon
Background of the project
In 2016, I participated in Angelhack Hong Kong, a 24-hour hackathon. Our team designed and created a prototype of an insurance policy management mobile application called Insubook. Insubook was selected as top 5 of the contest.
Our team
Apart from teaching at university, I had also done internal UX workshops at my workspace in hopes of promoting UX practices. I observed that participants had very different expectations at workspace.
Developer
What problems did the app try to solve?
As an insurance client, I had been bothered by the difficulty in managing my policies. Making a mobile platform for policy management was always one of my plans to realize. Max, our team’s business analyst who worked in the insurance industry, contributed a lot of insights about users’ painpoints and needs. We identified the 3 most important users’ painpoints to focus on:
- It’s difficult for users to manage policies across companies
- Users were unaware of what’s covered by their current policies
- Users wanted their beneficiary to be able to claim when they pass away
The solution
Our team considered many ideas and solutions but decided to limit our MVP to just 3 features due to the short timeframe. These 3 features corresponded to the 3 key painpoints we identified in the planning process.
Manage insurance policies
Auto-notification to beneficiary in case of death
