Landlord Studio
Overview
Landlord Studio is a NZ-based property management app that's found great success in the United States. Features cover all bases - from listing properties, to collecting rent payments and understanding tax requirements.
I was approached by Charles, the cofounder, to design a second app. This new app would help tenants manage their rent payments and maintenance requests with ease - a win-win for both parties.
I was approached by Charles, the cofounder, to design a second app. This new app would help tenants manage their rent payments and maintenance requests with ease - a win-win for both parties.
Responsibilities
UX Design
Wireframing
UI Design
Wireframing
UI Design
Timeline
De - Jan 2023
Team
Oliver Chiang - Head of Product
Deliverables
1x native mobile app design
A bit of context
Since Landlord Studio is an existing company, they came to me armed with everything I needed to get started, including
1. a brand kit, which provided a comprehensive set of guidelines and assets that ensured my design retained consistency in visual identity and messaging.
2. A design system, complete with various components used in the landlord-facing native mobile app, which I could utilise and add to where needed.
3. User flows and requirements for each screen in the tenant-facing app that had been thought through and agreed upon by stakeholders.
The stakeholders were already confident in which tabs they required for the app and which elements were needed on each screen, which allowed me to focus purely on high-fidelity design, designing new components and modernising old ones.
A key problem to be solved was how to clearly communicate to the user whether their rent payment was due soon, scheduled to be paid, paid, or overdue, and to have this the main focus of the dashboard tab. To complicate things, users were able to split their rent payment with another tenant, which required a 'rent remaining' state, or set it to autopay.
1. a brand kit, which provided a comprehensive set of guidelines and assets that ensured my design retained consistency in visual identity and messaging.
2. A design system, complete with various components used in the landlord-facing native mobile app, which I could utilise and add to where needed.
3. User flows and requirements for each screen in the tenant-facing app that had been thought through and agreed upon by stakeholders.
The stakeholders were already confident in which tabs they required for the app and which elements were needed on each screen, which allowed me to focus purely on high-fidelity design, designing new components and modernising old ones.
A key problem to be solved was how to clearly communicate to the user whether their rent payment was due soon, scheduled to be paid, paid, or overdue, and to have this the main focus of the dashboard tab. To complicate things, users were able to split their rent payment with another tenant, which required a 'rent remaining' state, or set it to autopay.
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