Making stablecoin payments feel like everyday banking
Founding Product Designer · Product, Design Systems
Problem
Stablecoins are powerful but intimidating. Wallets and unfamiliar assets make people wary of trusting a product with their money. Nothing like Grapes existed in Canada, and strict compliance requirements couldn’t leak into the experience.
Outcome
A payments platform built on stablecoin rails, launched in Canada. Businesses and individuals, from companies paying overseas to students covering tuition, could send and convert money across borders instantly, with no banks in between.
Learning the essentials at a glance
A short walkthrough of the dashboard and its key features, so nothing feels unfamiliar the first time in.
Verifying identity without the friction
Guided steps with clear progress and a reason behind every request, allowing compliance to feel like part of the product.
Linking a wallet in seconds
Connect an existing wallet like MetaMask in a few steps. Once linked, funds show up right away, with no addresses to copy or extra setup.
Adding a contact by name, not address
Find anyone by @handle, email or phone. Verified users are marked clearly, so sending money never means copying a wallet address.
Shaping flows around how people already move money
We mapped every core journey and ranked them by what users needed at launch.
Structuring the app around everyday banking tasks
Balances, payments and contacts lead, because they’re what customers use most.
A dashboard that people already know
Balances, transaction rows and amount fields all follow patterns people already use in their banking apps. No new habits to learn, so moving money feels like second nature.
Banking words, not crypto terms
Every DeFi term became one people already know: wallets became accounts, tokens became balances, swaps became exchanges. No new vocabulary to learn.
Every task in the fewest steps possible
Every flow was cut down to the fewest clicks possible. Preset amounts, one-tap actions and saved contacts meant no task ever took more effort than it needed.
Figma Design System
Detailed components with every variant and state defined, built on shared foundations. New flows were assembled from what already existed, keeping the product consistent and allowing us to move fast.
Token Connection
Tokens gave engineering one source of truth. Instead of eyeballing hex codes and pixel values, they used the same grapes.* names as design, so a change in Figma flowed straight through to code.