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People > Process > Profit. 🟢
I recently helped this team shift from working in the business to working on it. We ditched the "individual heroics" for three lean moves:
Define "Done Well": Every task now must pass the customer value test.
Map the Mess: We used a whiteboard to find the "silent fixes" and rework loops slowing them down.
Micro-Experiments: No grand redesigns. Just 2-week tests to kill friction.
Systems over stress. You don’t need a big budget to build capability—you just need a visible board and the courage to ask: "Where are we making this
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Business banking is already complex. The product shouldn’t make it feel even harder.
That was the thinking behind Bankora.
Payments, invoices, cash flow, financial overview. These are things business teams deal with constantly, yet many banking products still bury simple actions under dense data, long paths, and complicated navigation.
So I started with the workflows, not the screens.
I looked at the tasks people need to complete most often, where unnecessary steps appear, and what information actually needs attention first.
From there, I built the experience around clearer priorities: key actions available quickly, predictable navigation, structured financial data, and modular UI that makes things like pending and overdue invoices easier to understand at a glance.
I also designed an interactive cash flow calculator to help users see where the business may be heading, not just what has already happened.
The goal wasn’t to make financial operations simpler than they really are.
It was to make interacting with them feel simpler.
Less searching. Less cognitive load. More confidence in what to do next.
And it was especially nice to see Bankora later featured by Contra.
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Business banking is already complex. The product shouldn’t make it feel even harder.
That was the thinking behind Bankora.
Payments, invoices, cash flow, financial overview. These are things business teams deal with constantly, yet many banking products still bury simple actions under dense data, long paths, and complicated navigation.
So I started with the workflows, not the screens.
I looked at the tasks people need to complete most often, where unnecessary steps appear, and what information actually needs attention first.
From there, I built the experience around clearer priorities: key actions available quickly, predictable navigation, structured financial data, and modular UI that makes things like pending and overdue invoices easier to understand at a glance.
I also designed an interactive cash flow calculator to help users see where the business may be heading, not just what has already happened.
The goal wasn’t to make financial operations simpler than they really are.
It was to make interacting with them feel simpler.
Less searching. Less cognitive load. More confidence in what to do next.
And it was especially nice to see Bankora later featured by Contra.
A few months ago someone told me my portfolio didn't clearly show the impact of my work.
Fair. It had nice screens and not much proof.
So I went back to training. Since then I've rebuilt the whole thing with three AI coworkers: Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. I designed it, they wrote most of the code, and my main job was saying "no, smaller" about 400 times.
Every case study now shows the problem, the decision I made and what changed, with a source next to every number. If there's no number, it says so.
Then it got a bit out of hand ðŸ¤:
• a samurai intro (turn your sound on)
• a day/night switch that slices the page in half with lightning
• Slice, a sword game with a live leaderboard. My high score is very beatable. Please don't. 😂
• an ink dragon that tells you random facts about me
• a 30-second film in my own voice, below
It still loads in about a second on a slow phone. I'm now a designer who cares about load times. Nobody warned me that would happen.
I had more fun building this than I've had on anything in a long time.
Have a look: egbemodeyomi.com
Tell me which case study you'd read first, and your Slice score.
If you're building something and need a design engineer, say hi.
