My role
I have been leading the design process of the Outlay iOS/Android app, web app as well as landing page all the way from the sketching and prototyping phase to designing the interfaces pixel by pixel. This was a team project, but I worked on the full design from sketching to production alone while other team members was responsible for the development and project management of the project.‍

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About the client
Outlay turns your expense management digital, making your company go paperless and get rid of expense-clutter.

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With the free Outlay app, users can snap photos of your receipts and invoices using your smartphone, add information, and send them straight to your Outlay accountants.

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The solution

Through the redesign of Outlay, my focus has been on modernising the interface to give it a visual lift, but more importantly, to simplify and rethink the user flow of the product.

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Rethinking the UX
A major part of the project has been based on rethinking all the user flows from how the flow of scanning a receipt and adding it to the app as well as how to approve outlays.  

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The results
Through an agile process, I have redesigned the old Outlay app and web application to meet contemporary standards for a good user experience. Other than brushing up the entire user interface, I have also implemented various new features in the design, such as a camera scanning feature which automatically detects the receipt from the smartphone camera and crops an image out of it, to ultimately create a better experience for the users.

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The project ended up in more than 100+ screens of UI design, which were then implemented by the rest of the team, while I was giving continuous feedback on the implementation to ensure that what was built aligned with the design.

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About the app
The user opens the app and clicks on the, intentionally highlighted, the camera icon from the navigation menu. The user then takes a picture of the receipt for their expense with the use of their smartphone and adds simple details, relevant for the Outlay accountant.

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Once the details have been approved, the user sends the expense for approval. The accountant or responsible person at the company will then receive a notification, asking them to review the expense, before sending it to an Outlay accountant that will finally manage the expense in the company’s finances.