Welcome to the new dispensation! the era of seamless payments across the metaverse.
Metaward is a payment gateway to receive and send payments on and off the Metaverse. Create a payment request and cash out to crypto, airtime, mobile money, gift cards and banks in countries and metaverses.
Role
Lead product designer
Platforms
Responsive web app
Year
2021 - 2022
📜 Research storytime!
Joe 👨🏽💼 (Businessman in Kenya) contacts Dana 🧑🏻🎨 (Artist in the united states)for a commissioned art project for his new coffee shop. Dana works her magic and sends over the fantastic art pieces.
A problem now arises with payment options. Joe can’t find a suitable payment gateway to send funds over to Dana. The popular payment option in Kenya is mobile money - a digital money wallet attached to a mobile phone number, Sending payment over Dana with mobile money proved difficult with several delays, inconsistent currency conversions and third-party applications.
From this scenario, we outline the following problems:
Few options for sending international payments to countries that support mobile money.
Inconsistent currency conversion.
Money getting lost with multiple third-party applications.
We gathered more scenarios from which we outlined more problems:
Delay in sending over international payments from local banks.
Limited cashout options (crypto, airtime, gift cards).
🔎 Opportunity
With Metaward we simplified the payment process from two points of view
Sender
Receiver
🎨 Final designs
The receiver sends a payment request to the sender.
The sender can initiate payment from the payment request.
If you've scrolled this far, thank you for taking the time to read about my design decisions and solutions in response. If you'd like to talk more about the project, or just chat, please reach out!
