The Setup
An AI-powered credit score for the businesses traditional lenders overlook.
UX design partner to Till on Till — a mobile and web product that uses machine learning to build a business credit score from the kind of data small and medium businesses can actually produce. Delivered end-to-end across a ~3 month engagement, with a full design system handed off for build.
Turned a fintech thesis into something a client could show investors and build.
Till arrived with a strong product idea and a crowded runway. The engagement produced polished mobile and desktop designs, a documented app flow, and a full design system — the tangible artifacts a young fintech needs to raise, hire, and ship.
Gave the dev team a single source of truth instead of a stack of screens.
Color, typography, icons, symbols, and component states were all documented alongside the flows. Engineers didn't have to reverse-engineer intent from static comps, which kept scope and build cost under control for an early-stage team.
The Landscape
Business credit was gated by data small businesses couldn't produce.
Traditional business credit lived with a handful of bureaus, and the scores leaned on financial documentation that small and medium businesses typically don't have in clean, auditable form. The result was a quiet exclusion: the businesses that most needed working capital were the least able to prove they deserved it.
Till's bet was that AI and machine learning could derive a credible score from more accessible signals — the kind of data owners already generate running their business. Proving that bet meant turning an abstract model into a product owners would trust, on the devices they actually use.
Stakeholder workshops defining requirements and priorities.
The Mission
Ship an end-to-end design for a Business Health Dashboard the client could hand to engineering.
Move Till from concept to buildable product across mobile and desktop in roughly three months — covering discovery, definition, flows, wireframes, visual design, and a documented design system that could outlast the engagement.
The Moves
Four phases, one predictable delivery.
Workshops to pin down scope
Kicked off with collaborative working sessions — sticky notes, whiteboards, stakeholder interviews — to turn Till's thesis into a ranked list of requirements. The output was a shared understanding of what Till had to do on day one versus what could wait, which protected the timeline before a single screen was drawn.
Wireframes across mobile and desktop
Built medium-fidelity wireframes for both platforms in parallel so the Business Health Dashboard earned its layout on the device where it would actually be used most. Cross-platform decisions got resolved in wireframes rather than in visual design, where changes would have been more expensive.
A full app flow, not just a pile of screens
Mapped every screen and transition — onboarding, account linking, the Business Health Dashboard, and financial product recommendations — into a single flow document. It doubled as a scoping tool with Till and a build spec for the engineers who'd inherit the work.
Design system as the real deliverable
Closed the engagement with a documented system: color palette, typography, iconography, symbols, layer styles, and component states. The system turned the screens into a reusable foundation — so Till's team could extend Till past the engagement without re-hiring design for every new view.
The Payoff
An end-to-end design Till could build, show, and extend.
Till left the engagement with mobile and desktop visual designs, a complete app flow, and a documented design system — the artifacts a young fintech needs to fundraise with confidence and brief engineering without ambiguity. What started as an AI credit-scoring thesis became a product Till could put in front of stakeholders.
Platforms designed in parallel
Discovery through visual design
Design system delivered
Looking Back
The system was worth more than the screens.
The lasting value of a short agency engagement isn't the hero comp — it's whether the client can keep moving without you. Till's design system made the dashboard buildable today and extensible tomorrow, and that's the lens I now bring to every fixed-scope engagement: design the foundation, not just the first view.