Fintech Product Design

Design financial products people trust with their money — the onboarding and checks at the door, the numbers they decide on, and the reviews and permissions behind every application.

A steel robotic arm clamped to a white table sets an orange disc on the tallest of four rising stacks of white ceramic discs.
Four fintech cases
Ark Mortgage, LenderPal, Payyro, Xcoins
Customer and reviewer sides
Designed together, with permissions
Specialists set the rules
Design decides how they read
Custom scope
Set in the service’s proposal

In short

A financial product people understand, before they trust it with their money.

What's included

  • Onboarding and verification
  • Lending workflows
  • Financial data
  • Reviews and approvals
  • Roles and permissions

Answers you'll have before development

  • Where does each rate, fee and status belong?
  • What does a customer need at each step?
  • Who can see, approve or change an application?

Where it stops

Payment Product Design

One job: money moving from a payer to a recipient.

Fintech Product Design

The whole financial product: onboarding, data, reviews, roles.

Not included

  • Regulatory compliance or certification
  • Legal, financial or investment advice

The customer's side and the reviewer's, designed together

What we design for a financial product, from the first sign-up to the decision behind it.

Discuss your product
  • A ceramic base plate with two lanes, a pawn at the start of each, joined by steel bridges and meeting at a graphite block.

    Customer and staff journey map

    Applicants, customers, reviewers and admins, and every point where one waits on another.

  • A ceramic phone showing an ID frame, a ceramic ID card in front with a graphite check mark on it.

    Onboarding and verification

    Sign-up, identity and document steps that say what is needed next, and why.

  • A ceramic application form on a steel stand with three status tabs down its edge: a tick, a clock and a graphite tab.

    Application and review workflow

    Applications moving through checks, requests and decisions, with the status clear to both sides.

  • A half-open ceramic cash drawer of coin stacks, one graphite, a ceramic tablet with a bar chart on a steel stand behind it.

    Financial data views

    Balances, rates, fees and schedules laid out so each number is read right the first time.

You receive

  • Flows for every role
  • A state and permission matrix
  • UI and a clickable prototype

Designed for money nobody wants to misread.

Financial product design has to hold up when a document bounces, a rate moves or a reviewer is away. Each state below keeps the numbers straight.

Every screen is designed for

  • Document rejected, upload again
  • Application waiting on a reviewer
  • Rate changed before approval
  • Limit reached for this account
  • Co-applicant not yet joined
  • Session timed out halfway
  • Bank connection lost
  • Decision made, customer not told
  • Manual override, with a reason

When money and reviews meet in one product

It fits when people decide with real money and someone behind the screen reviews what they send.

  • Money on every screen

    People act on rates, fees and balances, so each one has to read right.

  • Reviews behind the front end

    Staff check documents, approve applications or moderate requests the customer never sees.

  • Several roles, strict rights

    Customers, reviewers, managers and admins each see and change different things.

  • Specialists own the rules

    Your compliance and legal team set what is required; design decides how it reads.

Let's make your financial product easy to trust

Tell us who applies, who reviews and where people drop off today. We will answer with the part of the journey we would examine first.

Scope, access and who does what

Whether the product is live decides which service opens the work; its proposal sets the terms.

Scope
Per service fixed or phased, set in the proposal
Timeline
Agreed after scope, access and dependencies
  1. You provide

    The product
    Staging or production access with test customers at each stage — new, pending, approved, declined.
    The rules
    What must be shown, checked or kept — as your compliance team sets it.
    Evidence
    Drop-off by step, support themes and the questions customers ask most.
    Engineering
    The team, the banking, identity and data providers, and their limits.
  2. Who does what

    ANODA
    Maps each customer and staff journey, designs the screens around every check and decision, and specifies the states for your developers.
    Your team
    Brings the compliance rules and provider limits, signs off each round, and builds and operates the product. Legal, regulatory and financial decisions stay with you.
  3. Boundaries

    Outside fintech product design
    Legal, regulatory and compliance review, financial advice, provider integration and development.
    After the design
    Your team or partner builds it and connects the banking, identity and data providers; a build review is separate.

In the client's words

ANODA worked within our existing UI language to organise lending tasks in a compact browser interface. The design gave us specific flows and screens to review without losing the connection to the wider product.

Sean Safholm Co-Founder, myhomeIQ Read the LenderPal case

Where do customers hesitate with their money?

Tell us what the product does, who reviews what, and which questions reach support.

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What is your product, who uses it, and what would you like us to do?

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    Fintech Product Design: common questions

    Which screens should a fintech design agency show us before we sign?

    Ask to see financial products the team designed and the states behind the marketing screens: a rejected document, an application stuck with a reviewer, a rate that changed, a limit reached. Ask whether each product reached real customers, who decided what had to be disclosed or checked, and which designers carried it. A good fintech design agency will also say plainly that design is not a compliance sign-off.

    What goes into designing a fintech product, and what makes it bigger?

    Usually a journey map for customers and staff, onboarding and verification, the application and review workflow, financial data views, the states in between, a prototype and the UI. Cost and time grow with each extra product line, role and platform, with redesigning while customers are mid-application, and with rules or data still being decided. Fintech design is not sold as a package: price follows the first service's scope, and dates follow access and provider dependencies.

    Which customers, staff and tasks does financial product design cover?

    Applicants and customers, co-applicants and guarantors, loan officers and managers, reviewers and underwriters, support staff and admins. The workflows are sign-up and identity checks, document requests, applications and their review, offers and decisions, repayments, balances and statements, limits and account changes, and the permissions that decide who sees and approves what. Lending UX design adds its own layer: offers that change with the data, conditions to clear before funding, and a customer who has to know what is still missing.

    Which parts of ANODA's work apply to a fintech product?

    UI/UX & Product Design for a new product, a UX Audit when a live one loses applicants halfway, Web App Design for reviewer and manager workspaces, Mobile App Design for the customer's app, Dashboard Design for balances and loan books, and Website Design for the site that has to earn trust first. Payments, investing and compliance tooling each have a focused page.

    Who decides what our fintech product must disclose — you or our compliance team?

    Your compliance and legal team decide what must be disclosed, checked and kept, and in which market; we design how each requirement reads and where it sits in the flow, then review it with them. We do not certify a product, give legal or financial advice, or claim a design is compliant. What we hand over shows where every required notice, consent and check appears, so your specialists can confirm it.

    What access, rules and data do you need to start the fintech work?

    Test customers at each stage on staging or production, the rules as your compliance team writes them, drop-off and support data, one product owner with authority to decide, and a line to engineering and your banking, identity and data providers. The questions customers send support after a rejected application tell us most.

    Which fintech and lending UX design projects can you show?

    Four published cases. Ark Mortgage: 100 unique screens across web and mobile. LenderPal: 150+ screens designed for a lending Chrome extension. Payyro: 400+ unique screens and 4 roles in one platform, its first release shipped on Webflow and Wized and a second version in development. Xcoins: a crypto buy journey, from quote to payment. Each figure belongs to its own project.

    Can you redesign a product customers already trust with their money?

    Yes. Most fintech work starts from a product customers already trust with their money, where a change must not make anyone doubt a balance or a status. We work in your files and design system beside product, engineering, risk and compliance, and hand everything back. When the product adds a market or a product line, we extend the components so new screens read like the rest.