Role: Product Designer (UX/UI, User Research, Prototyping)

Timeline: 16 Weeks

Context: Solo designer collaborating with a core engineering team.

Modern users are forced to fragment their finances, juggling traditional bank accounts for daily spending and separate Web3 wallets for crypto assets. Qweeka was conceived to bridge this gap into a single, unified interface.

However, launching a dual-engine financial app presents massive regulatory and technical friction. To de-risk the launch, we made a strategic decision to split the product into two phases: perfecting the traditional banking core first (Phase 1), while keeping the crypto infrastructure in a visual design sandbox (Phase 2).

My challenge was to design a rock-solid fiat banking foundation that left intuitive, pre-mapped entry points for the upcoming crypto features without cluttering the user experience.

Instead of trying to reinvent how people send money, I designed Qweeka to leverage existing user habits. I analyzed top-performing consumer banking apps to map out familiar, high-conversion transaction flows.

Every design decision was driven by reducing cognitive load:

Leveraging Mental Models: By utilizing familiar layout structures for transfers, bill payments, and card management, we eliminated the onboarding learning curve.

Designing for the Future: I built a modular dashboard widget system. This allows the fiat-only dashboard of Phase 1 to seamlessly transition to a dual fiat-crypto view in Phase 2 without requiring a structural redesign of the app.

Error Prevention via Progressive Disclosure: Instead of crowding data onto a single screen, I intentionally split the transaction flow into clear, step-by-step screens. This ensures users have absolute clarity and confidence at every decision point, significantly reducing accidental transfers and payment errors.

Engineering-Ready Handover: Delivered a fully mapped, high-fidelity Figma design system and interactive prototype for the fiat banking flow, allowing engineers to begin building immediately.