Designing Payments for Wave's mobile app

Wave’s Payments product was a high-revenue feature used by tens of thousands of small business owners, but it only existed on web — leaving mobile users with a fragmented, unclear experience. Mobile users wanted simpler ways to monitor payment movement, understand payout flow, and take quick actions on the go.

I led the end-to-end mobile design for Wave’s Payments experience, starting from user research and concept validation through to interactive prototypes and component delivery.

Client: Wave

Product Designer

Product Design

12 weeks

The solution

Instead of burying payments behind a separate tab, I designed an all-in-one Payments + Payouts dashboard on mobile that:

- Unifies incoming payments and payout details in a single view
- Highlights status and actions users care about first
- Simplifies information density without losing clarity
- Supports quick insight into cash flow movements throughout the day

Impact

This redesign improved the clarity and usability of Wave’s mobile payments experience by aligning it with user expectations for quick monitoring and task completion on handheld devices. The unified dashboard minimized confusion between transactions and payouts, making mobile a more capable platform for a critical business task.