Senior Designer
A stable wallet for people always on the move.
Designed a stablecoin-powered payments experience for digital nomads and expats, simplifying how they get paid, hold dollars, and spend across borders.
Money doesn't stop at the border.
Living across countries means dealing with currencies, payments, transfers, and everyday expenses across borders.
Blaze was built for this audience, but its social-first wallet wasn't yet designed around these financial workflows.
We needed to shift the experience from social wallet to financial tool.
One account had to work across borders.
The experience needed to bring together several financial moments without making users think about the infrastructure behind them.
We focused on the core journeys that mattered most: getting money in, moving it, and spending it.
The product had to earn trust quickly.
For a financial product serving people across borders, users needed clarity around where their money was, what they could do with it, and what would happen next.
We designed the experience around clear states, predictable actions, and immediate feedback.
Trust isn't a feature. It's the sum of every state the product shows you.
From complexity to a simple next step.
Cross-border payments involve details users shouldn't have to decode.
We explored ways to reduce that complexity at each critical moment, keeping the next action obvious while preserving the information needed to make a confident decision.
We designed the product around real financial moments.
Rather than treating payments, transfers, and spending as separate features, we looked at how they connected across the user's financial life.
Built for a product still taking shape.
Blaze was an early-stage product, which meant many decisions were still open.
I worked directly with the CTO and the CEO to move from ambiguous requirements to a delightful experience. We called it "the Uberization of Payments".
Previous version of the homescreen, a social-like experience.
New homescreen, focused on what matters the most in the day to day.
What I learned.
When there's no time to be certain, experience makes the call.
Speed, budget, and a product still finding its shape don't leave room to wait for complete information. That's exactly what a senior designer is hired for: fast decisions built on intuition and experience, the kind of judgment that actually helps a product grow and scale.
