Offer Tracking Design System
Building a scalable design system for tracking experiences across credit card offers, benefits, and rewardsβenabling teams to deliver consistent, user-centered experiences at enterprise scale.
From Invisible to Visible
Transforming how millions of customers discover and track their credit card benefits
Chase had a visibility problem. Customers were missing out on valuable benefits not because they weren't interested, but because they couldn't see what was available or track their progress toward rewards. Without proper tracking interfaces, offers sat dormantβinvisible to the users who needed them most.
What started as a straightforward design requestβ"create trackers so users can monitor their benefits"βrevealed a deeper systemic issue. As I began designing tracking experiences for specific offers, I uncovered widespread inconsistencies across the Chase ecosystem. Different teams had built isolated solutions, each with their own patterns, terminology, and interaction models. The lack of cohesion wasn't just a design problemβit was actively preventing new offers from launching.
I transformed this tactical project into a strategic design system initiative. The result: a comprehensive tracking framework that established scalable patterns, flexible UI components, and clear interaction models. This system now supports 1,000+ offers across Chase-branded cards and partner platformsβenabling rapid deployment while maintaining consistency.
Fragmentation at Scale
Why invisible benefits and inconsistent patterns were blocking growth
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Invisible Value
Many offers weren't being displayed because no applicable design pattern existed for them. Research showed a strong business case: increased visibility of trackable benefits would drive higher loyalty, engagement, and redemption rates. But without consistent tracking patterns, product teams couldn't launch new offers at scale.
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Fragmented Ecosystem
As I designed initial tracker concepts, the scope of the problem became clear. Teams across Chase had independently built tracking interfaces for their specific use casesβwelcome bonuses, category caps, statement credits, points balancesβeach with different visual treatments, information hierarchies, and interaction patterns. Customers experienced jarring inconsistency depending on which offer they viewed or which partner platform they used.
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No Systematic Approach
Every new offer launch required custom design work. Teams lacked clear guidance on information density, progress visualization, urgency signaling, or when to show what level of detail. Some trackers were too minimal, leaving users confused about requirements. Others overwhelmed users with dense information blocks. There was no shared language or reusable components.
Building Systems, Not Screens
How I transformed tactical design requests into a strategic framework
Audit First, Design Second
Before creating new patterns, I conducted a comprehensive ecosystem audit. I catalogued every existing tracking interface across Chase-owned platforms and co-branded partner sites, documenting inconsistencies in visual design, information architecture, interaction patterns, and terminology.
This audit revealed the true scope: teams were solving the same problems in wildly different ways.
From Patterns to Framework
The audit exposed a deeper insightβtrackers weren't just inconsistent, they lacked conceptual structure. Teams were treating all trackers the same, whether they were progress-toward-a-goal (welcome bonus), consumption-of-a-resource (statement credit), or status-only-reference (points balance).
I created a five-category system that brought clarity to this complexity, establishing distinct design principles for each tracker type.
This framework became the connective tissue that allowed diverse tracker types to feel cohesive while serving different user needs.
Skim, Dip, Dive Framework
Layered information that adapts to user intent and context
A three-tiered framework that balances information density with usability. This approach gives teams a clear, reusable model for structuring tracking experiences based on user intentβfrom quick status checks to comprehensive analytics.
Skim: At-a-Glance Status
Minimal information for quick scansβstatus indicators, key metrics, and progress bars. Optimized for users who just want to check if they're on track without diving into details.
Dip: Contextual Details
Mid-level information revealing offer terms, deadlines, and progress breakdowns. Designed for users who need clarity on specific requirements without overwhelming detail.
Dive: Comprehensive View
Full transaction history, detailed terms, eligibility criteria, and FAQs. Built for power users and complex scenarios requiring complete transparency.
Five Types That Scale
From one-size-fits-all to purpose-built patterns
The ecosystem audit revealed that teams were treating all trackers as functionally identical. But a welcome bonus tracker (progress toward earning) has fundamentally different needs than a statement credit tracker (consumption of limited resource) or a points balance tracker (status-only reference). Users needed different information, at different times, with different urgency.
I created a five-category system that brought conceptual clarity to this complexity. Rather than one-size-fits-all patterns, each category has distinct design principles governing visual treatment, urgency signaling, information hierarchy, and interaction patterns. This system became the foundation that allowed teams to quickly identify which pattern to use for any new offerβturning an ambiguous design question into a straightforward classification decision.
π Progress Trackers
Track user journey toward earning rewards or reaching spending thresholds. Show accumulation over time with clear finish line.
- βWelcome bonus spend requirements
- βQuarterly category spending caps
- βMilestone/tiered bonus progress
π Depletion Trackers
Monitor consumption of limited credits or resources. Emphasize what remains and create urgency around expiration to prevent waste.
- βAnnual statement credits ($200 airline)
- βMonthly recurring credits ($25 digital)
- βQuarterly partner credits ($75 retail)
π― Multi-Tier Trackers
Display both spending progress AND rewards earned across multiple achievement levels. Dual-tracking shows current tier and upcoming milestones.
- βProgressive bonus structures
- βTiered annual spending bonuses
- βLoyalty tier advancement
βοΈ Comparison Trackers
Compare performance across two time periods to reveal trends and growth. Show both absolute difference and percentage change.
- βYear-over-year points earned
- βQuarter-over-quarter spending
- βPeriod performance analytics
βΉοΈ Status Trackers
Display current state of benefits, balances, or eligibility without requiring action. Informational reference users check periodically.
- βPoints balance and cash value
- βPermanent benefits (lounge access)
- βAlways-on category bonuses
Skim, Dip, Dive in Action
Production-ready patterns across all five tracker categories
The following examples demonstrate the framework in practice. Each pattern shows how the five tracker categories work across all three information tiersβfrom quick-scan status checks (Skim) to comprehensive analytics (Dive). Toggle between tiers to see how the layered approach adapts to different user needs while maintaining consistency.
These aren't just design conceptsβthey're production-ready patterns now deployed across Chase and partner platforms, enabling teams to launch new offers with confidence that the experience will be consistent, scalable, and familiar to customers.
Progress Trackers
New Account Bonus
Track spending progress toward earning a new account bonus. Customer needs to spend $5,000 by May 1, 2026 to earn the reward.
Quarterly Category Bonus
Track quarterly category spending caps. Customer has spent $1,200 toward the $1,500 dining category limit for Q1, earning 6,000 bonus points.
Quarterly Goals
Visualize progress across multiple discrete segments. Customer has completed 3 of 4 quarterly goals for Q4 2025.
Quarterly Cash Back Earnings
Track cash back earned toward quarterly spending cap. Customer has earned $60 of $75 maximum across dining, gas, and grocery categories.
While progress trackers focus on building toward a goal, depletion trackers address the opposite need β tracking what's being consumed.
Depletion Trackers
Annual Travel Credit
Monitor remaining annual travel credit. Customer has used $250 of their $300 credit, with $50 remaining before the January reset.
Monthly Streaming Credit
Track monthly use-it-or-lose-it credit with urgency. Customer has $10 of $20 streaming credit left with only 5 days before it resets.
Not every benefit requires progress tracking. Some benefits are always-on and just need clear status visibility.
Status Trackers
Premium Card Benefits
Display active card benefits and their current status. Customer has Platinum tier with 5 active perks including lounge access and travel credits.
Priority Pass Access
Display permanent benefit status with usage tracking. Customer has unlimited lounge access with 12 visits used year-to-date.
Rotating Bonus Categories
Display which bonus categories are currently active. Categories rotate quarterly with new activations taking effect January 1st.
Credit Utilization
Display circular progress for percentage-based metrics. Customer is using 28% of their $10,000 credit limitβwithin the recommended 30% threshold.
Some benefits span multiple levels of achievement, requiring trackers that communicate both current status and what's ahead.
Multi-Tier Trackers
Elite Status Progress
Track progress across multiple status tiers with milestone markers. Customer has earned 35,000 points (Gold tier) and needs 15,000 more to reach Platinum.
Tiered Account Bonus
Track progress toward multiple bonus tiers with independent deadlines. Customer missed Tier 1 (May 1 deadline), but has spent $8,000 toward Tier 2 ($10k by Aug 1) and is still eligible for Tier 3 ($15k by Nov 1).
When customers need to evaluate options side by side, comparison trackers provide the structure to make informed decisions.
Comparison Trackers
Month-over-Month Spending
Compare spending across time periods with dual progress bars. November spending was $4,200 compared to October's $3,750βa 12% increase.
Year-over-Year Points
Compare points earned across years with dual progress bars. Customer earned 48,500 points this year compared to 32,000 points last yearβa 52% increase.
One Place for Every Offer
Centralizing all of a customer's trackable benefits into a single, card-aware destination
The Skim/Dip/Dive framework and five tracker categories solved the design problem β how to present any individual offer consistently. But a bigger UX problem remained: customers had no single place to see ALL their available offers, bonuses, and benefits across their cards. Welcome bonuses, statement credits, category spending caps, and portfolio offers were scattered across different screens and features in the app. A customer with multiple Chase cards had no way to get a unified view of what was available to them.
The Tracker Hub is a dedicated destination within the Chase mobile app that aggregates every trackable offer across a customer's card portfolio into one view. At the top, an account selector lets users switch between their cards. Below, a tab system organizes offers by status β Active, Earned, and Expired β each rendered using the Skim/Dip/Dive patterns from the design system. The hub supports complex offer types including bundled offers (multiple requirements grouped under one reward), multi-tier bonuses (spend thresholds that unlock progressively larger rewards), and transaction + spend hurdle combinations.
The hub needed to handle significant complexity without overwhelming users. I designed it with progressive disclosure at its core: the default view shows Skim-level summaries for all offers (progress bars, key metrics, deadlines), with tap-to-expand into Dip and Dive detail. A tab-based navigation separates offer statuses so users can quickly orient to what matters most. The account selector was critical β many customers have 2-3 Chase cards, and the hub needed to feel like "your card's offers" rather than a generic offers page. Skeleton loaders handle async data fetching, and error states were designed per-offer-type so a single API failure doesn't collapse the entire view.
The Tracker Hub supports 6+ distinct offer types β from simple single-hurdle spend bonuses to complex bundled offers with multiple concurrent requirements. Each type uses the standardized tracker components from the design system, but the hub's architecture handles the orchestration: which offers to show, how to prioritize them, how to handle partial data, and how to surface urgency when deadlines approach.
Card-Aware Architecture
The account selector gives each card its own offer context. Customers with multiple Chase cards see only the offers relevant to their selected card β reducing noise and building trust that the information is personalized.
Progressive Disclosure
Default view shows Skim-level summaries for all offers. Tap any offer to expand into Dip (terms, deadlines, requirements) or Dive (full transaction history, eligibility details). This keeps the hub scannable while making depth available on demand.
Priority & Urgency Signals
Offers approaching deadlines surface visual urgency cues β amber/red progress bars, "X days left" badges, and priority sorting. Completed tiers show green checkmarks. The system handles the hierarchy so users see what needs attention first.
Graceful Degradation
Each offer card loads independently. If one API call fails, only that card shows an error state β the rest of the hub remains functional. Skeleton loaders provide visual stability during data fetching, preventing layout shifts.
Designing Discovery
How customers find and navigate to the Tracker Hub from across the Chase app
Building the Tracker Hub solved the destination problem β but a destination is useless if customers can't find it. The Chase mobile app has multiple surfaces where customers interact with their cards: the Card Overview Detail (OVD) page, the home feed, notification banners, and the EMOB (Early Month on Book) onboarding flow. Each surface represented an opportunity to surface tracker information and drive users into the hub. The design challenge was determining what information to show at each entry point, how much to reveal versus tease, and how to create a consistent "thread" that pulls users deeper.
I designed entry points across four key surfaces, each calibrated to its context. On the Card OVD (the primary card management screen), tracker tiles sit prominently below the card art β showing Skim-level summaries of the customer's most relevant offers with a "Track your progress" CTA that opens the full hub. For limited-time incentives, a banner pattern with urgency signaling (countdown, amber accent) surfaces above the fold to drive time-sensitive action. On the EMOB smart checklist (which new cardholders see in their first weeks), the tracker entry point is woven into the onboarding flow β encouraging customers to start tracking from Day 0. And for portfolio-wide offers, entry points surface on the home feed as awareness-building tiles.
Each entry point follows three rules: (1) Show just enough to create intent β a progress bar, a key metric, or a deadline β without duplicating the hub's full content; (2) Every entry point leads to the same Tracker Hub destination, building a consistent mental model of "where my offers live"; (3) Entry points are context-sensitive β a new cardholder sees their NABO progress prominently, while a tenured cardholder sees their portfolio offers and category spending. This ensures the right information reaches the right user at the right moment.
Card OVD Entry Point
The Card Overview Detail page is where customers go to manage their card β check balance, make payments, view transactions. By placing tracker tiles directly below the card art (the most prominent visual real estate), we ensure offer progress is visible during the most common card interaction. The tiles use Skim-level summaries: a progress bar, the offer title, and key metric. Tapping "Track your progress" navigates to the full hub pre-filtered to that card.
For limited-time offers, the OVD entry point escalates urgency: when a deadline is within 30 days, the tile switches from standard blue to amber, and a "X days left" badge appears. Within 7 days, it turns red. This graduated urgency system prevents banner blindness while ensuring time-sensitive offers get noticed.
EMOB Checklist Integration
For newly approved cardholders, the EMOB (Early Month on Book) smart checklist is their first guided experience in the app. I designed the tracker entry point as a checklist item β "Track your progress" β positioned alongside other setup tasks like adding to digital wallet and setting up autopay.
This integration serves two purposes: it introduces the Tracker Hub concept from the very first interaction, establishing it as the "home" for offer tracking; and it drives customers to check their new account bonus progress, which is the most motivating offer type for new cardholders. The EMOB entry point is aligned to the same design pattern used in the Core Card onboarding checklist, ensuring visual consistency across the full new-cardholder journey.
Components & Infrastructure
Building reusable patterns that scale across teams and platforms
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Flexible UI Patterns
Created reusable components for progress indicators, status badges, timeline views, and collapsible content modules that teams could configure without custom design work.
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Scalable Architecture
Designed the system to accommodate multiple offer types (new account bonuses, base offers, portfolio offers), card types (branded and co-branded), and partner platforms while maintaining visual consistency.
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Documentation & Governance
Established guidelines for when to use each tier (Skim/Dip/Dive), component usage patterns, and content templates to ensure consistent implementation across teams.
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Cross-Platform Consistency
Ensured tracking experiences worked seamlessly across both Chase-owned platforms and partner co-branded sites, maintaining brand integrity while respecting partner guidelines.
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Hub & Entry Point Architecture
Designed the Tracker Hub as the centralized destination for all card offers, plus a system of contextual entry points across the Card OVD, EMOB checklist, home feed, and limited-time banners β creating a connected network of tracker touchpoints throughout the Chase app.
Measurable Outcomes
How the framework transformed offer visibility and team velocity
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From Invisible to Visible
The framework unblocked 15+ new offer types that previously had no applicable design pattern. Teams went from months-long custom design cycles to launching new trackable benefits in under two weeks β turning a backlog of dormant offers into active customer engagement drivers.
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Systematic Scalability
12+ product teams across Chase and co-branded partners adopted the framework within the first two quarters. Time-to-launch for new tracker experiences dropped from 6β8 weeks of custom design to under 2 weeks using established patterns β a 75% reduction in design-to-deployment cycle time.
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Cross-Platform Coherence
The framework bridged Chase and partner platforms. Customers now experience consistent tracking interfaces whether they're on Chase.com or a co-branded partner site. The system respects individual brand requirements while maintaining recognizable interaction patternsβsolving a coordination problem that previously required case-by-case negotiation.
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Design Efficiency
By solving information density and tracker categorization systematically, the framework eliminated hundreds of hours of duplicated design work. Teams across the organization now share a common language for building tracking experiences, reducing ambiguity and accelerating delivery.
Key Learnings
What this project taught me about designing systems at enterprise scale
Working across 1,000+ offers and multiple partner platforms reinforced the importance of designing flexible systems rather than rigid templates. The most successful patterns were those that could adapt to diverse contexts while maintaining core consistency.
Perhaps most importantly, I learned that enterprise design impact isn't always measured in individual user flowsβsometimes the biggest wins come from eliminating fragmentation and creating shared solutions that lift all experiences simultaneously.
The Tracker Hub taught me that components are only half the story. A design system gives you the building blocks, but without a coherent destination and clear discovery paths, those blocks remain scattered across the product. Designing the hub and entry points was really about designing the system of navigation β ensuring that no matter where a customer starts in the app, their most relevant offers are always within reach.