Date

Feb 11, 2025

Client

Ema Lab

Industry Name

Duration

Fintech

1 month

Duration

Involved Designers

1 month

Prakhar Neel Sharma, Saloni Khandelwal, Neel Litoriya

Involved Designers

Industry Name

Prakhar Neel Sharma, Saloni Khandelwal, Neel Litoriya

Fintech

Bounty

Duo designre

Bounty · Mobile App Design · UX Strategy · Product Thinking

Where It Began

Abraham had already paid a designer. The work came back flat, the flow was broken, and creators couldn't find their way through the app naturally. He scrapped it and came to us. We didn't give him one direction and ask him to trust us. We built two complete design drafts and let him choose. He stopped being a client approving work — he became a founder making a product decision. That's where the real work begins.

The Thinking Behind the Design

  1. Onboarding — Hick's Law More choices at once means slower, more anxious decisions. So before a creator sees a single bounty, we guided them through a simple category selection — Fashion, Food, Beauty, Technology. This data then feeds directly into every search filter and discovery feed throughout the app. The platform learns who you are in the first sixty seconds.

  2. Home Screen — Miller's Law The brain can only process a limited number of chunks at once. So we built three clear sections — earnings visibility, active bounties with live status tags, and brand discovery by category. Three creator goals. One screen. No overload.

  3. My Bounties — Jakob's Law Users bring mental models from every other app they use. So we designed familiar status indicators — Active, Waiting for Post, Expired — with list and grid views. Patterns creators already know, applied where clarity was missing. Five style explorations delivered so the team had real options.

  4. Brand Store — Peak-End Rule People remember experiences by their peak moment and their ending — nothing else. So we designed each brand page to open with a bold hero image and close with all active bounties clearly laid out. The entry and the reveal were engineered to be the two strongest emotional moments in the browse experience.

  5. Bounty Detail — Cognitive Load Theory When a screen demands too much at once, users abandon. So we stripped the detail page to only what a creator needs to act. Reward visibility first. Social handles with platform icons. Hashtags with one-tap copy. Post requirements as a scannable checklist. One clear CTA. Nothing competing with anything else.

The Real Problem

The brief didn't mention any of this. We found it ourselves. Creators had no sense of where they stood — active bounties, pending approvals, and expired opportunities were all visually merged with nothing separating them. The search was a single input bar on a platform entirely built around brand-creator discovery. And the gap between seeing a bounty and creating quality content was dangerously wide — instructions buried, expectations unclear, creators quietly set up to fail.

Seeing what's broken before anyone asks you to fix it — that's product thinking.

The Saloneel Moment

The brief didn't mention any of this. We found it ourselves. Creators had no sense of where they stood — active bounties, pending approvals, and expired opportunities were all visually merged with nothing separating them. The search was a single input bar on a platform entirely built around brand-creator discovery. And the gap between seeing a bounty and creating quality content was dangerously wide — instructions buried, expectations unclear, creators quietly set up to fail.

Seeing what's broken before anyone asks you to fix it — that's product thinking.

The Outcome

Bounty was acquired by Gen.AI following our design delivery. Our deliverable was the mobile app design. What the team chose to build post-acquisition was their call. What matters to us is that Abraham kept coming back through multiple iterations — the strongest signal a founder can give.

We were hired to design an app. We stayed to think about the product. That's always been the difference.

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