Koalafi

As with all Big Human projects, we began by learning more about our client and the services it provides. After several stakeholder interviews and collaborative workshops, we identified two challenges. The first was information density; there’s important information for the customer to consider when choosing between financing options, and it’s difficult to fit it all on a small screen. The second was the individual experiences that make up Koalafi’s platform: its consumer financing application portal and merchant portal. With these interconnected data streams, we had to analyze how these setups spoke to each other and conveyed information.

To make sure we gave both of these challenges the attention they deserved, we split them into two different projects. Since Koalafi’s top priority was to update its application with the new branding, the first sprint focused on reskinning the platform with UX/UI tweaks. The second was a deeper restructuring of the application that optimized content and user flows. As a more exploratory concept, this part of the project was treated as a way to show Koalafi how it could iterate on its user experience in the future.

With a new name and look, Koalafi’s financial services platform also needed to reflect the evolved identity. Big Human designers worked on applying Koalafi’s updated branding to every page and element on the platform. We looked at it as if we were painting, refreshing colors, fonts, spacing, and more. Since we needed to work fast, we focused on making design updates that would have the greatest visual impact with the least amount of code and structural changes.

Nimbly reskinning the platform allowed the Big Human team to put more time and effort into the second half of the project. We saw it as a clean slate, giving Koalafi options for an enhanced user experience its team could later explore.

We knew we had to account for various user and information flows, so we started with reconfiguring Koalafi’s wireframes and information architecture on the financing application and user portals. With rich content and resources for both consumers and merchants to sort through, we condensed the information hierarchy to include the most important details first. 

By the end of the project, Koalafi walked away with new designs for its servicing portal, merchant portal, financing application, email templates, global styles, and components — a perfect starting point for its team to test, iterate, and build upon in the future.