Movo - Onboarding with Purpose: How Thoughtful Data Collection Signals Trust

Type
Mobile onboarding flow
Timeline
3 weeks
Role
UX & UI Designer
Team
Solo project

Problem

Onboarding trust and credibility in fintech is dependant on balancing required data collection with user comfort, security with simplicity and professionalism with warmth. Without proper balance between these factors, the experience can feel intrusive or insecure for users.

Opportunity

Establish an optimal balance for how these factors interact to build trust and credibility, then explore it through a mobile onboarding experience.

My approach

  • Conducted a competitive analysis by mapping user journeys across multiple products to uncover patterns, friction points, emotional states, and trust signals. This identified key opportunities and helped inform future design decisions
  • Defined guiding principles: consistency, empathy, transparency, clarity, and brand-driven design, as well as core goals: trust, clarity, and human-centricity to align all design decisions toward the same outcomes.
  • Leveraged common data collection patterns and strongest trust signals from competitors as the foundation for Movo’s architecture and onboarding flow.
  • Mapped the onboarding flow screen by screen using the following structured waterfall approach to ensure alignment with principles and goals: purpose of the screen, emotional tone, microcopy, and visual design cues
  • Developed a brand theme centered on momentum, serving as a guide for visual design, motion design, and microcopy to maintain a cohesive and consistent experience.
  • Used AI (ChatGPT) to accelerate wireframing, generating detailed prompts from the user flow map, which were then refined into high-fidelity designs aligned with the brand theme.
  • Finalized a high-fidelity interactive prototype using Figma Make and Rive animations to test the flow against competitor benchmarks to validate that trust, clarity, and human-centric goals were met.

Result

  • Conducted exploratory user sessions, inviting participants to navigate the prototype and share their impressions of the experience.
  • Feedback highlighted that the “sleek and professional” flow felt thorough, thoughtful, and credible, reinforcing the effectiveness of trust signals, visual hierarchy, and overall design coherence.