WattlePay: Premium Fintech Experience Design

WattlePay is a personal concept project I built to explore what a premium fintech experience could look like when every design decision is intentional — not inherited from a template or a default component library.

The starting point was simple: two color swatches. Wattle #CFD457 and Bunker #040810. Everything else — surfaces, depth, hierarchy, interactions — derives from that constraint.

Most banking apps look the same. Blue, white, safe. Trust through familiarity. But familiarity isn't the only way to signal credibility. I wanted to prove that a dark, premium aesthetic could feel just as trustworthy — and significantly more considered.

The secondary challenge: build it as a working prototype, not a static mockup. Designs that can't be interacted with hide their flaws.

Solo project — concept to prototype.

I handled the full product design process: visual identity, color system, glassmorphism layer structure, component design, UX flows, and interaction states. I then built the entire prototype in Figma Make with zero UI libraries — every margin, radius, and animation written explicitly.

The result is 12 screens, 7 complete flows, and 8 interactive settings sub-screens.