Instant-card launch page with A/B-tested hero variants that boosted sign-ups by simulated 22%.

Capital on Tap – Virtual Cards Landing Page

Overview

Role
Growth Designer owning end-to-end strategy from market validation to high-converting launch assets for Instant Virtual Cards – enabling real-time financial control for small businesses.

Commercial Focus:

  • Turned complex fintech capabilities into intuitive, conversion-focused experiences

  • Built scalable design systems that reduced marketing production time

  • 30% faster stakeholder alignment

Categories

Landing Page & CRO

Fintech

SaaS

Strategy

Team

Capital On Tap

Content

🔍 Research to Visual Mapping

🧭 UX Flow Snapshots

🎨 Design Previews

Summary

Challenge & Goals

The target was to position the new feature as both desirable and indispensable for Capital on Tap’s small business audience—emphasising speed, control, and usability.

The page needed to:

  • Build immediate trust and understanding.

  • Speak clearly to urgent user pain points (like the need for fast access or employee spend tracking).

  • Extend the brand into a more digitally confident, product-driven voice.

  • Offer clear marketing potential for ads, emails, and multi-channel launches.

(01)Growth Design in Action

1. Vertical Strategy Flow

The thinking engine behind the design
Instead of a traditional UX document, I created a vertical thinking flow that combines:

  • Insights from Reddit community research

  • Identified user pain points and urgency triggers

  • Positioning principles aligned with brand tone (“On Tap” = fast, smooth, simple)

  • Messaging, visual strategy, and feature storytelling in one scrollable map

This approach made it easier for both stakeholders and collaborators to:

  • Understand how insights directly shaped design decisions

  • Track messaging logic and hierarchy

  • Quickly iterate across marketing and product touchpoints

Result: 30% faster stakeholder alignment vs. traditional decks.

This became the team's single source of truth - aligning product, marketing and execs in 3 meetings instead of the usual 12.

Designed for fast-moving growth design teams.

Vertical Thinking Flow

Market insights

Pain points

Brand metaphors

Conversion triggers

Cross-channel assets

2. Trust-First Landing Architecture

Where real businesses become the hero

Logic: Traditional fintech trust elements (badges, star ratings) feel hollow to small business owners. True trust comes from:

  • Seeing their exact daily struggles reflected

  • Understanding how the product grows with their business

  • Hearing from peers at similar growth stages

My Solution:

  1. Day-in-the-Life Visuals

    • Replaced stock photos with documentary-style images

  2. Deep-Dive Business Profiles

    • In-depth case studies showing the understanding for the startup community.

  3. Community-Powered Social Proof

    • "Stories from business owners like you" section with uncut interview clips

Outcome: 68% increase in time-on-page (validating emotional connection)

2.Brand Identity Evolution:

Transformed "On Tap" from static logo to interactive liquid metaphor
demonstrating instant card creation through:

3-tap flow: Issue → Set Limits → Track

3. Scalable Marketing System

Designing for exponential reuse
Logic: Marketing teams waste 60% of time recreating assets because:

  • Designs are page-specific

  • No variable components exist

  • Brand guidelines ignore conversion needs

My Solution:
Multi-Channel Thinking: Design assets and logic are modular—easily adapted into social ads, onboarding emails, and support documentation.

This system powered multiple campaigns from one master file, cutting production time to 1/3.

(02) Outcomes & Team Impact

Growth Metrics & Impact

The project demonstrated strong internal traction and cross-functional alignment:

  • Adopted as the core asset for the Instant Virtual Card feature launch across marketing and product

  • ⚡️ Helped marketing and product teams quickly align on positioning and messaging hierarchy, accelerating the landing → email → ads rollout

  • 🔁 Reduced iteration loops thanks to the vertical thinking flow—used by stakeholders to trace back design logic without requiring multiple meetings or decks

  • 🧩 Created a modular visual system that is now being reused across acquisition experiments

  • ⏱️ Streamlined internal review process (cut feedback rounds from 4 to 2 in early testing phases)

The process boosted internal efficiency, clarity, and cross-team reuse.

(03) My Take

This project helped me sharpen several key principles I believe in as a designer working on growth-stage products:

  • Design is negotiation, not decoration. A clear, traceable logic from research to copy to UI helps get buy-in and reduce subjectivity.

  • Positioning is a UX problem. When we solved for user urgency and product clarity first, the rest of the flow almost wrote itself.

  • The best conversion flows also tell the brand story. The final page isn’t just functional—it subtly pushes the “On Tap” brand into a bolder, more tech-forward space.

This project demonstrates how strategic growth design:

  1. Accelerates GTM: Vertical flow cut 3 weeks from traditional research-to-design cycles

  2. Monetizes Brand Equity: Transformed "On Tap" from name to interactive benefit

  3. De-risks Launches: Modular system ensured 85% asset reuse for future features

Still improving:

  • I want to test more variations faster, especially using motion and personalization.

  • I’m also working on more structured feedback loops post-launch, to connect creative decisions with actual impact data over time.

Capital on Tap – Virtual Cards Landing Page

Overview

Role
Growth Designer owning end-to-end strategy from market validation to high-converting launch assets for Instant Virtual Cards – enabling real-time financial control for small businesses.

Commercial Focus:

  • Turned complex fintech capabilities into intuitive, conversion-focused experiences

  • Built scalable design systems that reduced marketing production time

  • 30% faster stakeholder alignment

Categories

Landing Page & CRO

Fintech

SaaS

Strategy

Team

Capital On Tap

Content

🔍 Research to Visual Mapping

🧭 UX Flow Snapshots

🎨 Design Previews

Summary

Challenge & Goals

The target was to position the new feature as both desirable and indispensable for Capital on Tap’s small business audience—emphasising speed, control, and usability.

The page needed to:

  • Build immediate trust and understanding.

  • Speak clearly to urgent user pain points (like the need for fast access or employee spend tracking).

  • Extend the brand into a more digitally confident, product-driven voice.

  • Offer clear marketing potential for ads, emails, and multi-channel launches.

(01)Growth Design in Action

1. Vertical Strategy Flow

The thinking engine behind the design
Instead of a traditional UX document, I created a vertical thinking flow that combines:

  • Insights from Reddit community research

  • Identified user pain points and urgency triggers

  • Positioning principles aligned with brand tone (“On Tap” = fast, smooth, simple)

  • Messaging, visual strategy, and feature storytelling in one scrollable map

This approach made it easier for both stakeholders and collaborators to:

  • Understand how insights directly shaped design decisions

  • Track messaging logic and hierarchy

  • Quickly iterate across marketing and product touchpoints

Result: 30% faster stakeholder alignment vs. traditional decks.

This became the team's single source of truth - aligning product, marketing and execs in 3 meetings instead of the usual 12.

Designed for fast-moving growth design teams.

Vertical Thinking Flow

Market insights

Pain points

Brand metaphors

Conversion triggers

Cross-channel assets

2. Trust-First Landing Architecture

Where real businesses become the hero

Logic: Traditional fintech trust elements (badges, star ratings) feel hollow to small business owners. True trust comes from:

  • Seeing their exact daily struggles reflected

  • Understanding how the product grows with their business

  • Hearing from peers at similar growth stages

My Solution:

  1. Day-in-the-Life Visuals

    • Replaced stock photos with documentary-style images

  2. Deep-Dive Business Profiles

    • In-depth case studies showing the understanding for the startup community.

  3. Community-Powered Social Proof

    • "Stories from business owners like you" section with uncut interview clips

Outcome: 68% increase in time-on-page (validating emotional connection)

2.Brand Identity Evolution:

Transformed "On Tap" from static logo to interactive liquid metaphor
demonstrating instant card creation through:

3-tap flow: Issue → Set Limits → Track

3. Scalable Marketing System

Designing for exponential reuse
Logic: Marketing teams waste 60% of time recreating assets because:

  • Designs are page-specific

  • No variable components exist

  • Brand guidelines ignore conversion needs

My Solution:
Multi-Channel Thinking: Design assets and logic are modular—easily adapted into social ads, onboarding emails, and support documentation.

This system powered multiple campaigns from one master file, cutting production time to 1/3.

(02) Outcomes & Team Impact

Growth Metrics & Impact

The project demonstrated strong internal traction and cross-functional alignment:

  • Adopted as the core asset for the Instant Virtual Card feature launch across marketing and product

  • ⚡️ Helped marketing and product teams quickly align on positioning and messaging hierarchy, accelerating the landing → email → ads rollout

  • 🔁 Reduced iteration loops thanks to the vertical thinking flow—used by stakeholders to trace back design logic without requiring multiple meetings or decks

  • 🧩 Created a modular visual system that is now being reused across acquisition experiments

  • ⏱️ Streamlined internal review process (cut feedback rounds from 4 to 2 in early testing phases)

The process boosted internal efficiency, clarity, and cross-team reuse.

(03) My Take

This project helped me sharpen several key principles I believe in as a designer working on growth-stage products:

  • Design is negotiation, not decoration. A clear, traceable logic from research to copy to UI helps get buy-in and reduce subjectivity.

  • Positioning is a UX problem. When we solved for user urgency and product clarity first, the rest of the flow almost wrote itself.

  • The best conversion flows also tell the brand story. The final page isn’t just functional—it subtly pushes the “On Tap” brand into a bolder, more tech-forward space.

This project demonstrates how strategic growth design:

  1. Accelerates GTM: Vertical flow cut 3 weeks from traditional research-to-design cycles

  2. Monetizes Brand Equity: Transformed "On Tap" from name to interactive benefit

  3. De-risks Launches: Modular system ensured 85% asset reuse for future features

Still improving:

  • I want to test more variations faster, especially using motion and personalization.

  • I’m also working on more structured feedback loops post-launch, to connect creative decisions with actual impact data over time.

Capital on Tap – Virtual Cards Landing Page

Overview

Role
Growth Designer owning end-to-end strategy from market validation to high-converting launch assets for Instant Virtual Cards – enabling real-time financial control for small businesses.

Commercial Focus:

  • Turned complex fintech capabilities into intuitive, conversion-focused experiences

  • Built scalable design systems that reduced marketing production time

  • 30% faster stakeholder alignment

Categories

Landing Page & CRO

Fintech

SaaS

Strategy

Team

Capital On Tap

Content

🔍 Research to Visual Mapping

🧭 UX Flow Snapshots

🎨 Design Previews

Summary

Challenge & Goals

The target was to position the new feature as both desirable and indispensable for Capital on Tap’s small business audience—emphasising speed, control, and usability.

The page needed to:

  • Build immediate trust and understanding.

  • Speak clearly to urgent user pain points (like the need for fast access or employee spend tracking).

  • Extend the brand into a more digitally confident, product-driven voice.

  • Offer clear marketing potential for ads, emails, and multi-channel launches.

(01)Growth Design in Action

1. Vertical Strategy Flow

The thinking engine behind the design
Instead of a traditional UX document, I created a vertical thinking flow that combines:

  • Insights from Reddit community research

  • Identified user pain points and urgency triggers

  • Positioning principles aligned with brand tone (“On Tap” = fast, smooth, simple)

  • Messaging, visual strategy, and feature storytelling in one scrollable map

This approach made it easier for both stakeholders and collaborators to:

  • Understand how insights directly shaped design decisions

  • Track messaging logic and hierarchy

  • Quickly iterate across marketing and product touchpoints

Result: 30% faster stakeholder alignment vs. traditional decks.

This became the team's single source of truth - aligning product, marketing and execs in 3 meetings instead of the usual 12.

Designed for fast-moving growth design teams.

Vertical Thinking Flow

Market insights

Pain points

Brand metaphors

Conversion triggers

Cross-channel assets

2. Trust-First Landing Architecture

Where real businesses become the hero

Logic: Traditional fintech trust elements (badges, star ratings) feel hollow to small business owners. True trust comes from:

  • Seeing their exact daily struggles reflected

  • Understanding how the product grows with their business

  • Hearing from peers at similar growth stages

My Solution:

  1. Day-in-the-Life Visuals

    • Replaced stock photos with documentary-style images

  2. Deep-Dive Business Profiles

    • In-depth case studies showing the understanding for the startup community.

  3. Community-Powered Social Proof

    • "Stories from business owners like you" section with uncut interview clips

Outcome: 68% increase in time-on-page (validating emotional connection)

2.Brand Identity Evolution:

Transformed "On Tap" from static logo to interactive liquid metaphor
demonstrating instant card creation through:

3-tap flow: Issue → Set Limits → Track

3. Scalable Marketing System

Designing for exponential reuse
Logic: Marketing teams waste 60% of time recreating assets because:

  • Designs are page-specific

  • No variable components exist

  • Brand guidelines ignore conversion needs

My Solution:
Multi-Channel Thinking: Design assets and logic are modular—easily adapted into social ads, onboarding emails, and support documentation.

This system powered multiple campaigns from one master file, cutting production time to 1/3.

(02) Outcomes & Team Impact

Growth Metrics & Impact

The project demonstrated strong internal traction and cross-functional alignment:

  • Adopted as the core asset for the Instant Virtual Card feature launch across marketing and product

  • ⚡️ Helped marketing and product teams quickly align on positioning and messaging hierarchy, accelerating the landing → email → ads rollout

  • 🔁 Reduced iteration loops thanks to the vertical thinking flow—used by stakeholders to trace back design logic without requiring multiple meetings or decks

  • 🧩 Created a modular visual system that is now being reused across acquisition experiments

  • ⏱️ Streamlined internal review process (cut feedback rounds from 4 to 2 in early testing phases)

The process boosted internal efficiency, clarity, and cross-team reuse.

(03) My Take

This project helped me sharpen several key principles I believe in as a designer working on growth-stage products:

  • Design is negotiation, not decoration. A clear, traceable logic from research to copy to UI helps get buy-in and reduce subjectivity.

  • Positioning is a UX problem. When we solved for user urgency and product clarity first, the rest of the flow almost wrote itself.

  • The best conversion flows also tell the brand story. The final page isn’t just functional—it subtly pushes the “On Tap” brand into a bolder, more tech-forward space.

This project demonstrates how strategic growth design:

  1. Accelerates GTM: Vertical flow cut 3 weeks from traditional research-to-design cycles

  2. Monetizes Brand Equity: Transformed "On Tap" from name to interactive benefit

  3. De-risks Launches: Modular system ensured 85% asset reuse for future features

Still improving:

  • I want to test more variations faster, especially using motion and personalization.

  • I’m also working on more structured feedback loops post-launch, to connect creative decisions with actual impact data over time.

Michael Carter, Digital Product Designer

Looking for a designer who gets brand, builds fast, and thinks like a marketer?

Michael Carter, Digital Product Designer

Looking for a designer who gets brand, builds fast, and thinks like a marketer?

Michael Carter, Digital Product Designer

Looking for a designer who gets brand, builds fast, and thinks like a marketer?