Mogo Finance Technology

Mogo is a Vancouver-based fintech company with over one million members. Mogo offers a variety of products designed to help Canadians take control of their financial wellbeing.

In my role as Senior Product Designer I’ve been involved in the development of several of Mogo’s digital financial products at multiple levels. I’ve worked in close collaboration with Product Management to help determine product strategy, with Technical and Solutions architects to bring cutting-edge experiences to life for Mogo’s users, and with my fellow Product Designers to design and maintain a precise and detailed set of design standards, and to ensure those standards are applied consistently.

The MogoSpend product—Mogo’s Visa Platinum Prepaid Card—has been my primary focus during my time at Mogo. Among other things, I designed the critical and complex workflows that allow users to load money on their cards, set up, and manage automatic recurring loads, and set spending goals.

I also assisted with the design of the Spending Analysis view for MogoSpend, which allows users to see and compare their monthly spending details over time. I helped define the animation and interaction details of the spending graph.

I helped define a strategy for the development of a financial health goal-setting experience within the Mogo app. With initial strategic direction from Mogo’s CEO, I worked in collaboration with Product Management and technical partners to define a strategy for prototyping, testing, and iterating an experience in a lightweight manner, that could help boost user engagement, drive account creation, and help users stay focused on achieving their financial goals.

I’ve been involved in prototyping and user testing many different features and experiences for the Mogo app, but also the occasional feature for the Mogo Marketing site. One example would be a rethinking of the Marketing site navigation, which included a radical repositioning of the navigation at the bottom of the page, when encountered on mobile devices. Although unconventional, the concept tested significantly better than the previous design.