This project was an internal initiative to address a growing challenge as our products expanded, our user interface became inconsistent. To solve this, we set out to build a single, centralized design system. This toolkit of styles and components serves as the official guide for our teams, enabling us to build beautiful, consistent, and high-quality fintech applications much more efficiently.
The goal was to create a complete design toolkit. This would help us build new products and features much faster, ensure everything looks professional and consistent, and improve the overall experience for our customers.
The main problem was that different parts of our apps started to look and feel inconsistent. The job was to fix this by creating one official set of design rules and ready-to-use parts that everyone on the team can use.
The outcome is a powerful toolkit that helps us design and build better products in less time. This saves money, ensures a high-quality user experience, and allows our team to focus on creating innovative new features for our customers.
To create a clear visual hierarchy and guide the user, we defined a set of core button styles. Each variant has a distinct visual weight, allowing us to assign the appropriate level of emphasis to every action on the screen.
To create a clear visual hierarchy and guide the user, we defined a set of core button styles. Each variant has a distinct visual weight, allowing us to assign the appropriate level of emphasis to every action on the screen.
To ensure a consistent and organized structure across all our applications, we established a foundational grid system. This responsive framework provides a clear blueprint for aligning all components, guaranteeing a clean, predictable, and scalable user interface on any device.
To create a clean visual rhythm and reduce cognitive load, our spacing is governed by a defined mathematical scale. This system creates a harmonious relationship between elements, ensuring every layout feels balanced and intentional while eliminating guesswork for our design and development teams.
Capturing user data accurately and effortlessly is critical. Our form components are designed as a robust system to handle any data input scenario, providing users with clear guidance through helper text, interactive states, and built-in error validation. This ensures the process is always intuitive and error-free.
Chips are highly versatile components that represent choices, filters, or actions in a small footprint. They allow users to make selections, view attributes, and trigger actions in a dynamic way, making complex information easy to parse and interact with.
To provide timely feedback on app processes without interrupting a user's workflow, our system uses snackbars. These temporary messages appear briefly to deliver concise information, confirm an action was completed, or provide an optional, contextual action.
Managing user perception during system operations is key to a frictionless experience. Our progress indicators provide clear visual feedback that processes are running, assuring users the application is working and preventing them from abandoning a task.
To anchor the user's journey and provide immediate access to core application features, our navigation bar is a persistent and intuitive guide. It ensures that the most critical destinations are always just one tap away, creating a stable and predictable structure for every user session.
The top app bar provides essential context and navigation for the user's current screen. It consistently displays the page title, offers a clear path for backward navigation, and houses key contextual actions, ensuring users are always oriented and have access to relevant tools.
Displaying rows of data with clarity is fundamental. Our list components are engineered to present information in a highly scannable format, allowing users to parse through sets of items—such as transactions or contacts—with minimal effort.
Selecting a specific date or range is a critical task. Our date picker is engineered to make this process effortless, offering intuitive navigation across days, months, and years. This ensures users can pinpoint the exact date they need with precision and confidence.
From submitting verification documents to attaching transaction receipts, our file uploader provides a seamless and reliable interface. With built-in states for every step of the journey—from drag-and-drop to success and error feedback—the component ensures a trustworthy and transparent experience for the user.
To provide users with immediate, contextual information without cluttering the UI, we developed a standardized tooltip component. These brief, descriptive messages appear on hover or focus, offering helpful hints, definitions, or supplementary data exactly when and where it's needed.
To present complex information in a structured and scannable format, we rely on card components. Each card acts as a self-contained module, grouping related content and actions to create clear, digestible summaries that serve as entry points to more detailed views.
To create a universal visual language that transcends text, we developed a comprehensive icon library. Each icon is meticulously designed for clarity and recognition, ensuring that actions, objects, and concepts are instantly understood across all our applications, creating a more intuitive user experience.
To accelerate development and build upon industry-proven best practices, we drew foundational inspiration from leading design systems. Our core work was not to copy, but to adapt, customize, and extend these frameworks to fit our unique brand and specific fintech needs.
Our key references included: Google's Material Design 3, for its comprehensive guidelines on accessibility and interaction patterns.
The Fin Design System by Kiran MN, for its excellent, fintech-specific component structures
To accelerate development and build upon industry-proven best practices, we drew foundational inspiration from leading design systems. Our core work was not to copy, but to adapt, customize, and extend these frameworks to fit our unique brand and specific fintech needs.
Our key references included: Google's Material Design 3, for its comprehensive guidelines on accessibility and interaction patterns.
The Fin Design System by Kiran MN, for its excellent, fintech-specific component structures