Release readiness for fintech & regulated products
IceBear reviews your critical product flow before release and finds UX, accessibility and interface issues your users should never see.
Release Readiness Review
Release recommendation
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Release Readiness is built for teams that already have something real to review and are approaching a meaningful release, redesign or workflow change.
Scope
The pilot covers one important end-to-end journey rather than spreading attention across an entire product.
A narrow scope lets the review go deeper into interaction states, recovery paths, accessibility and decision points — instead of producing a shallow list of observations across the whole product.
Functional testing confirms that a feature works. It does not always reveal inaccessible controls, unclear error recovery, missing states, inconsistent interactions or visual regressions.
IceBear reviews those gaps before they become production incidents, customer complaints or audit findings.
QA tells you whether it works. Release Readiness asks whether it works for the user — whether they understand the action, notice the result, can recover from failure and can make the right decision with the information in front of them. It complements QA. It does not replace it.
Keyboard navigation, focus behaviour, semantics, labels and screen-reader support.
Feedback, validation, error recovery, unclear flows and preventable friction.
Components, spacing, typography, responsive behaviour and visual regressions.
Loading, empty, error, success, timeout and interrupted journeys.
Every finding is prioritised, evidenced and written to support a decision — not to create another backlog nobody understands.
The final confirmation action is not reachable in the expected focus order. Keyboard users may be unable to complete the payment journey.
Evidence
Confirmation screen
Mobile payment review step, focus indicator absent on the primary action.
Focus order trace
Tab sequence skips from amount field directly to footer navigation.
DOM observation
Confirm button rendered outside the form's tab sequence via a portal.
How the pilot works
Select one important flow with approximately 8–15 screens or meaningful states — onboarding, identity verification, payment, account opening, insurance quotation or a customer-service request.
We inspect agreed desktop and mobile states using automated checks and expert UX and accessibility analysis, under confidentiality. No production access or real customer data is required.
You receive the prioritised report and a 60-minute review session with clear recommendations for the release.
Martin Puškáč
Founder, IceBear
IceBear is led by Martin Puškáč, a senior product designer and design consultant with experience across banking, investment, insurance and enterprise digital products — including past work with Credit Suisse. His focus: making complex systems easier to navigate, easier to trust, and easier to make decisions in.
The review combines repeatable automated checks with contextual product judgement. Automation helps uncover and organise evidence. Expert analysis determines what matters for the release.
Founding pilot
IceBear is looking for a small number of fintech and regulated product teams to test and refine this service on a real upcoming release.
€950 excl. VAT
Founding pilot pricing applies while the review format is still being refined with the first client teams.
Best suited to established product teams with a staging environment and an upcoming release.
A small number of pilot projects will be selected.
Apply with one critical product journey. IceBear will confirm whether the pilot is a suitable fit and define the review scope before work begins.