Redesigning an admin panel for an international payments platform

Role: UX Designer

Timeline: 2 Weeks

Responsibilities: UX Research, UI Design, Dev Handoff

Outcome: Redesigned the admin panel end-to-end, cut table columns by 40% through smarter data grouping

PKI is an international payments platform, close in spirit to Wise, built around moving money across borders simply The customer app already existed. My job was the other half of the product, the admin panel, the side that keeps the whole system running but nobody outside the company ever sees.

Before touching any screens, I spent time in Wise's actual product, understanding how a mature player in this exact space handles complexity like multi-currency accounts, verification, and transaction states Admin panels live and die by their tables. PKI's admin needed to manage users, transactions, and verification - all data-dense All needing to be scanned fast by someone doing this fifty times a day. That became the real design problem

Built the dashboard around cards and a user management table first, to establish what kind of components the rest of the panel would need

Designed unique row components for every table type, each carrying 5 to 7 columns of live data

Added a user ledger modal and a user delete modal, so critical actions didn't need a full page navigation

Reduced table columns by 40%, clubbing raw data with its status or action instead of giving each its own column

Refined the full admin flow through a few iteration rounds with the dev team before handoff

Table columns reduced by 40% without losing any information density

Full admin panel designed and handed off in 2 weeks

Reusable row and table components built for future admin screens

Dev handoff refined through direct iteration with the engineering team

Fintech flows carry a lot of data, and an admin screen someone opens dozens of times a day can't afford to fight them every single time I identified the components getting used the most and focused there, making them more usable and useful while cutting the noise around them.