ATM Transformation

Modernizing Citi’s ATM experience through a scalable design system

AccessibilityDesign SystemsLegacy Modernization

Role

Senior Product Designer

Timeline

2021–2025

Team

Creative Director

Product Design

Product

Engineering

Overview

Rebuilding 400+ ATM screens into one scalable system

Citi’s ATM experience needed a full modernization driven by WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements.

What began as a UI refresh quickly became a systems challenge: hundreds of fixed-layout screens, hardware constraints, and a rollout spanning thousands of ATMs across multiple countries.

As a Senior Product Designer, I helped transform the experience into a reusable, token-based design system built to scale.

400+

ATM screens rebuilt

65K+

ATMs impacted

20+

Countries supported

The primary cash withdrawal flow — one of the highest-volume ATM interactions — became a key test case for speed, accessibility, consistency, and scalability across the redesigned system.

Design Approach

Design rules instead of individual screens

Rather than redesigning every screen independently, we built a reusable system of components, tokens, and accessibility patterns that could scale across the entire ATM ecosystem.

Accessibility became part of the foundation—not a QA checklist—and every decision was designed to support consistency across hardware, markets, and future releases.

Impact

A stronger foundation for Citi’s next generation of ATMs

The redesign established a scalable design system that supported Citi’s global accessibility rollout while making the experience easier to maintain and extend over time.

This project reinforced that when products span hundreds of experiences, the real design challenge isn’t the screens—it’s the system behind them.

A modernized Citi ATM in a real-world setting, showing the redesigned interface in context

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