A Brand Story That Wins Top Talent

  • ClientJ.P. Morgan
  • IndustryFinancial Services
  • ServicesCustomer Experience
  • CapabilitiesBusiness Analysis · Brand Transformation Strategy · Content strategy · Information Architecture

How we helped JPMC sharpen its story for every audience

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest bank in the U.S., is an organization dedicated to driving an inclusive economy for communities around the globe and across all facets of its business. They approached Code and Theory to help them align their site to their audiences’ needs, impact marketing objectives, and brand storytelling.

The existing user experience reflected JPMC’s span and size without focus, and the overwhelming navigation and complex site architecture meant users failed to find the stories and actions most relevant to them. We’ll show how we approached distilling a global financial institution into a digital footprint that could serve a multitude of audiences and organizational objectives.

Along the way, you’ll see how we helped JPMC tell a more compelling, organized brand story while attracting top talent and clarifying their overall impact and global presence.

For the J.P. Morgan project, we studied the target audience and their needs to identify the key questions and moments that matter most in the experience. Insights were gathered through research and analysis to surface patterns in behavior, expectations, and pain points. This approach clarified priorities and informed a clear direction for what to design and build next.

Research based insights

We discovered through stakeholder conversations and research that the experiences had overlap, with mutual themes of connectivity and security. To ensure the experiences told a united story while meeting their independent objectives, we designed them in parallel to one another. Chase’s new mobile banking pages focus on succinctly introducing the feature and its benefits while offering multiple CTAs to enhance conversion. The Security Center experience includes a new site architecture, taxonomy, navigation, and page narratives that guide users to action, encourage learning about prevention and the latest scams, and instill a sense of control to lower anxiety.

Building on the research and approach, the ecosystem experience was scaled by turning the core insights into a repeatable framework that could be applied consistently across touchpoints. This shifted the work from one-off solutions to a shared set of patterns and guidance, making it easier for teams to deliver a coherent experience for customers across the ecosystem. The changes were designed to support broader adoption, reduce inconsistency, and ensure the experience could grow without losing clarity or quality.

Re-architecting jpmorgan.com

J.P. Morgan is renowned for its expertise, client service, breadth of offerings, and reputation as a partner across industries, yet the site underdelivered in demonstrating these attributes. We partnered with JP Morgan to re-architect their web presence and harmonize the experience with its business and audience objectives.

We identified the primary tasks the site needed to help users accomplish by leveraging a data-driven approach involving search analytics, user behavior, and journey mapping. Our research enabled us to establish three key experience pillars for the new JPM site – Universal Findability, Personalized Connection, and Expertise Through Proof – and for us to understand that users view content on JPM.com through three primary contexts – Solution, Growth Stage, or Industry.

The experience we designed (launching in 2023) takes an incredibly circuitous reflection of corporate structure and transforms it into a guided editorial experience that bridges the gap between prospect and client experience. The deep design system unifies all J.P. Morgan lines of business, bringing a publisher’s toolkit to marquee publications like market outlooks. Since users return to this content through repeat visits, we designed each piece of content to be shareable and interactive at each chapter, and for format-bending flexibility that allows different team members to view the content in executive summary and long-form, online and off.

We architected the new experience for seamless pathing throughout the ecosystem and the prioritization of investor goals over products on each page, enabling us to drive focused engagement and conversion for JPM WM. Our three-phased approach to scaling the experience meant that we could deliver new page templates, features, and functionality that add value at each step along the way, while remaining agile to make improvements based on learnings.

A clearer J.P. Morgan story, built around what audiences need

This work brought together research across the business, users, landscape, and the end-to-end experience to clarify what matters most and how people want to learn about the organization and its identity. With that shared motivation as the anchor, the storytelling was sharpened and aligned to user values, making the narrative easier to understand and more relevant.

The redesigned experience improves wayfinding to key content and makes it easier for users to navigate with confidence. It also surfaces important stories more clearly, helping key narratives stand out without adding friction. Bold yet inviting design and brand choices reinforce J.P. Morgan’s identity while maintaining a polished, modern feel. Overall, the experience remains approachable, cohesive, and clear across the site.

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