iKantor
A currency exchange application sold as a reference implementation, built to be handed over to a client's own team and adjusted from there.
Client
Sequence Software House
Role
Sole designer. Wireframes, branding, final UI
Type
Product design
Year
2016
A reference implementation someone else would run
iKantor was a reference implementation of a backend service for currency exchange offered as a product to various entities, including currency exchange providers, banks, etc. On the one hand, it was crafted as a friendly and intuitive service for regular end-users. On the other, it was designed and developed in such a manner to be easily adjustable and valuable for a broad scope of currency-related service providers. The goal was to deliver a product that can be taken by the client's devops teams and managed and adjusted according to individual needs.
Beta shipped, then the investor left
The company managed to deliver the Beta version product according to the brief and set goals. Unfortunately, iKantor lost its angel investor and was discontinued.
The application
Four areas carry the whole product. You land on a dashboard that answers what you hold and what it is worth right now. Rates sit under a chart you can read over a day, a week, a month or a year. The exchange itself is a single form that takes an amount, a pair and a bank account, and nothing else. History is a filterable table, because the one thing people do after moving money is go looking for the proof.
The navigation and the live rates rail never move between those areas. That was deliberate for a product meant to be handed to somebody else's devops team: the further the interface can be reskinned and rearranged, the more it has to keep its bones in the same place.
